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  1. 1 a Vegetable of the brassica family with purplish leaves (3,7)
  2. 7 a Put the phone down (4,3)
  3. 8 a More ill-mannered (5)
  4. 10 a Be aware of (4)
  5. 11 a What Greek dolmades are wrapped in (4,4)
  6. 13 a Large black dots in eyes (6)
  7. 15 a Turn from a liquid to a solid (6)
  8. 17 a Fierce fight (when the bell sounds?) (4-4)
  9. 18 a Maori war dance (4)
  10. 21 a French state secondary school (5)
  11. 22 a Having daydreams (7)
  12. 23 a Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord, published 1886 (10)
  13. 1 d The Fab Four's drummer (5)
  14. 2 d It can open (and close!) (4)
  15. 3 d (Being) up to date (2,4)
  16. 4 d Port city on the Garonne in south-west France, a major wine capital (8)
  17. 5 d Manna from heaven! (7)
  18. 6 d Put your foot down here when you want to stop (5,5)
  19. 9 d Place for shooting practice (5,5)
  20. 12 d Batter with a heavy object (8)
  21. 14 d The elusive universal remedy (7)
  22. 16 d Brute (6)
  23. 19 d Cordial relations (5)
  24. 20 d Rain heavily (4)

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