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  1. 1 a Card that lets one borrow books (7,6)
  2. 8 a Tea (3)
  3. 9 a Off-key (3,2,4)
  4. 10 a Please sit down! (4,1,3)
  5. 11 a Long green edible vegetable seed pods (4)
  6. 13 a Eyesight problem making distant objects appear blurred (6)
  7. 14 a 'Howzat?', for example (6)
  8. 16 a Toy figure (4)
  9. 17 a Wrap entirely (8)
  10. 20 a Continental breakfast item (9)
  11. 21 a Yank (3)
  12. 22 a Skedaddle (4,1,3,3,2)
  13. 1 d Legit (5)
  14. 2 d Confection from a Lancashire seaside resort (9,4)
  15. 3 d Perfumed (8)
  16. 4 d Treaty (anag) — talk (6)
  17. 5 d Dodgy (informal) (4)
  18. 6 d Illegal weapon — curt Ken sulked (anag) (7-6)
  19. 7 d Elation (anag) — protection for 18 (7)
  20. 12 d Pre-meal drink (8)
  21. 13 d Small amount (7)
  22. 15 d Pacific island country, before independence the Ellice Islands (6)
  23. 18 d Number — finger (5)
  24. 19 d Largest continent (4)

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