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  1. 1 a Slanted (4-5)
  2. 8 a Soothsayer (4)
  3. 9 a In confidence (9)
  4. 10 a Make up a (political?) story (4)
  5. 13 a Intense (5)
  6. 15 a Derivation (6)
  7. 16 a Coup d'état (6)
  8. 17 a Severe reprimand (6)
  9. 19 a City on Lac Léman, headquarters of the Red Cross (6)
  10. 20 a Weapon with a blade (5)
  11. 21 a Walk out (4)
  12. 24 a Post receptacle (9)
  13. 25 a Leave the stage (4)
  14. 26 a Bootlicker (9)
  15. 2 d Stone between pavement and road (4)
  16. 3 d Hand signal (4)
  17. 4 d It secures a woman's headgear (6)
  18. 5 d Shot in the arm (6)
  19. 6 d One dealing with boring paperwork (3-6)
  20. 7 d Affecting the windpipe (9)
  21. 11 d Familiar moniker — quiet orbs (anag) (9)
  22. 12 d Mark over, under or through a letter (9)
  23. 13 d Emotional feelings experienced instinctively (5)
  24. 14 d Fooled (5)
  25. 18 d Like well-off people in the countryside with an interest in horses, dogs etc? (6)
  26. 19 d Got rot (anag) (6)
  27. 22 d Patronising — impish (4)
  28. 23 d Natural satellite of a planet (4)

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