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  1. 1 a Weather (forecast) feature (4,5)
  2. 8 a Countryside (5)
  3. 9 a Do nothing with one's thumbs? (7)
  4. 10 a The UK today? (8)
  5. 11 a Jumbled mess (4)
  6. 13 a Has a fit of the vapours? (6)
  7. 14 a Sponsor (6)
  8. 16 a Japan's national legislature (4)
  9. 17 a Pooch fan (3,5)
  10. 19 a Plants that complete their life cycles within the space of a year (7)
  11. 20 a Engender (like fish?) (5)
  12. 21 a Corruption (9)
  13. 1 d Gas, Cl (8)
  14. 2 d Chinese fruit with a thin rough skin and sweet white flesh (6)
  15. 3 d Light fencing sword (4)
  16. 4 d As alumni of the same school, a CV link shared by Churchill and Nehru (3,9)
  17. 5 d Baby's dummy (8,4)
  18. 6 d Place of complete bliss and peace? (8,4)
  19. 7 d As in a concert (anag) — from the other side of the pond? (12)
  20. 12 d Cumbrian city (8)
  21. 15 d Switches on a computer — lingos (anag) (4,2)
  22. 18 d Lady who Alfred Tennyson asked to 'come into the garden' (4)

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