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  1. 1 a Church seating (4)
  2. 3 a Talk in a casual and friendly way (8)
  3. 8 a Deserve (4)
  4. 9 a Turning sharply to one side (8)
  5. 11 a Dickens's last unfinished novel (5,5)
  6. 14 a Dress (6)
  7. 15 a Cook briefly in boiling water (6)
  8. 17 a Kind of lottery (10)
  9. 20 a American singer-songwriter, b. 1986 (4,4)
  10. 21 a Antipodean — fruit (4)
  11. 22 a Be idle and accomplish nothing (8)
  12. 23 a Advance very gradually (4)
  13. 1 d Giving a false appearance (8)
  14. 2 d Bitter-tasting plant used to flavour absinthe (8)
  15. 4 d Chicken — playwright (6)
  16. 5 d Approximately (4,2,4)
  17. 6 d Miss — neglect (4)
  18. 7 d Advance very gradually (4)
  19. 10 d Off the bottle? (2,3,5)
  20. 12 d Unwelcome intrusion (8)
  21. 13 d Shamefaced (8)
  22. 16 d Stone or kilogram, say (6)
  23. 18 d In addition (4)
  24. 19 d Thought (4)

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