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  1. 1 a Hold out (6)
  2. 4 a Italian after-dinner drink made from the residue of wine-making (6)
  3. 9 a Swings and roundabouts etc? (7)
  4. 10 a Vitriol (5)
  5. 11 a Clean by rubbing hard (5)
  6. 12 a North Star (7)
  7. 13 a Charades, for example (7,4)
  8. 18 a Unidentified object (7)
  9. 20 a Gentle reminder (5)
  10. 22 a Recorded film (5)
  11. 23 a I'm unable to assist (2,3,2)
  12. 24 a Soldier in a cavalry regiment (6)
  13. 25 a Small oceanic seabird, comes ashore only to breed (6)
  14. 1 d Say 'no' (6)
  15. 2 d Echo-location (5)
  16. 3 d Pasta and meat dish (abbr) (4,3)
  17. 5 d French impressionist composer, d. 1937 (5)
  18. 6 d 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog', for example (7)
  19. 7 d Virtually (6)
  20. 8 d Spraying fertiliser from a plane (4,7)
  21. 14 d Lamp-rubbing boy who thus summons a genie (7)
  22. 15 d Chocolate and cream filling — a change (anag) (7)
  23. 16 d Pivot (6)
  24. 17 d Pull back (in horror?) (6)
  25. 19 d Loop with running knot (5)
  26. 21 d A giving kind of person (5)

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