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1
a
Decisive (9)
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8
a
Talk incessantly (3,2)
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9
a
Make — way (7)
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10
a
Unmatched (8)
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11
a
Personal influence over others (informal) (4)
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13
a
Side dishes (6)
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14
a
Trigger (3,3)
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16
a
Jan van __ , painter of the Arnolfini Portrait (4)
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17
a
Upper part of the face (8)
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19
a
Frontier settlement (7)
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20
a
Piece of poetry (5)
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21
a
Taken aback (9)
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1
d
Close (8)
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2
d
Steep — brew (6)
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3
d
Too (4)
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4
d
Branch of pure mathematics — merry tooting (anag) (12)
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5
d
Soldiers seen as expendable (6,6)
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6
d
Totally absurd (12)
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7
d
Person one is talking with (12)
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12
d
On hold (8)
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15
d
Silently moves one's lips (6)
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18
d
Open land covered with heather and bracken (4)