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  1. 1 a Pocketed equipment for a ball game (8,5)
  2. 8 a Not belligerent (7)
  3. 9 a Sound (5)
  4. 10 a Strain (4)
  5. 11 a Particularly weak area (4,4)
  6. 13 a Romeo and Juliet's city on the River Adige (6)
  7. 14 a Tool for trimming bushes or small trees (6)
  8. 17 a Popular Victorian opium-based painkiller (8)
  9. 19 a Of the mouth (4)
  10. 21 a More primitive (5)
  11. 22 a Suspect picture? (7)
  12. 24 a Unscrupulous trader (7-6)
  13. 1 d Party with dancing (informal) (3)
  14. 2 d Satan (7)
  15. 3 d Unreliable (informal) (4)
  16. 4 d Church of England parson (6)
  17. 5 d Slight trace — solution (8)
  18. 6 d Barrage balloon (5)
  19. 7 d Concerned with voting (9)
  20. 10 d London's street for men's suiting? (6,3)
  21. 12 d Keeping an eye over an area (2,6)
  22. 15 d Arctic mammal with a spiral tusk (7)
  23. 16 d Warmest season of the year (6)
  24. 18 d Not justified (5)
  25. 20 d Feverish chill (4)
  26. 23 d Cover with bitumen (3)

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