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  1. 1 a Very disappointed (4,2,1,6)
  2. 8 a Wide open (7)
  3. 9 a Argue (anag) (5)
  4. 10 a Dirty (4)
  5. 11 a Totally inept (8)
  6. 13 a Long cream puff (6)
  7. 14 a Oldest French national newspaper (6)
  8. 17 a Heavy twilled cotton (8)
  9. 19 a Male horse kept for breeding (4)
  10. 21 a Trump (5)
  11. 22 a Holy smoke! (7)
  12. 24 a Game for putters but not drivers (9,4)
  13. 1 d For example (3)
  14. 2 d American who herds cattle (7)
  15. 3 d Central line (4)
  16. 4 d South-west African country, an ex-Portuguese colony (6)
  17. 5 d University faculty member (8)
  18. 6 d Reprobate (5)
  19. 7 d Doorway (9)
  20. 10 d Turkish bath chamber (5,4)
  21. 12 d Body of Jews outside modern Israel (8)
  22. 15 d Shakespeare's merchant of Venice (7)
  23. 16 d Social surroundings (6)
  24. 18 d Old Italian? (5)
  25. 20 d Hurt feeling? (4)
  26. 23 d Pixie (3)

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