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  1. 1 a Drink — assimilate (6)
  2. 4 a Prized (6)
  3. 9 a Enzo ___ , Italian car designer and manufacturer, d. 1988 (7)
  4. 10 a Small round women's hat (5)
  5. 11 a Aggregate (5)
  6. 12 a Hunting dog — bird of prey (7)
  7. 13 a Shakespearean sleepwalker (4,7)
  8. 18 a Middle East capital (7)
  9. 20 a Very important person (5)
  10. 22 a Proposition assumed to be self-evident (5)
  11. 23 a Warning in Germany (7)
  12. 24 a Spur on with cheers and shouts (6)
  13. 25 a Quick and skilful (6)
  14. 1 d Laughing uncontrollably (2,4)
  15. 2 d Brimless cap (also worn in France!) (5)
  16. 3 d A cooking apple (7)
  17. 5 d Thespian (5)
  18. 6 d Fraught with anxiety (7)
  19. 7 d Dismal (6)
  20. 8 d All the time — Cole Porter song from the 1932 musical Gay Divorce (5,3,3)
  21. 14 d Severe mental distress (7)
  22. 15 d Bungled (7)
  23. 16 d Burning fiercely (6)
  24. 17 d Gawain or Galahad, say (6)
  25. 19 d Express reluctance (5)
  26. 21 d Cornwall's county town and only city (5)

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