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  1. 1 a Electrical control (6)
  2. 4 a Transition from the sublime to the ridiculous (6)
  3. 9 a 1897 gothic horror novel (7)
  4. 10 a Dome-shaped ice cream dessert (5)
  5. 11 a Former Japanese capital (5)
  6. 12 a Sea bed? (7)
  7. 13 a Lewis Carroll poem (11)
  8. 18 a Strong alcohol (7)
  9. 20 a Duck with soft feathers (5)
  10. 22 a Kind of pachyderm (abbr) (5)
  11. 23 a Racing canine (7)
  12. 24 a Add patterns of colour to a fabric (3-3)
  13. 25 a Practitioner of a winter sport (6)
  14. 1 d Number puzzle (6)
  15. 2 d Northwest US state (5)
  16. 3 d Unit of electrical charge (7)
  17. 5 d Picture book? (5)
  18. 6 d Socrates's killer (7)
  19. 7 d Stool pigeons (6)
  20. 8 d GK Chesterton's detective (6,5)
  21. 14 d Obtain (7)
  22. 15 d Stone pillar with a pyramidal top (7)
  23. 16 d Blood — wine (6)
  24. 17 d Rhetorician (6)
  25. 19 d Very dark brown or black (5)
  26. 21 d Warehouse (5)

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