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  1. 1 a It should calm you down (8)
  2. 5 a UK's largest kind of beetle (4)
  3. 9 a Supermarket walkway (5)
  4. 10 a Deceptively clever? (7)
  5. 11 a Start (12)
  6. 13 a Firstborn (6)
  7. 14 a Overused phrase (6)
  8. 17 a Pompous jargon (informal) (12)
  9. 20 a Subtlety (7)
  10. 21 a Very eccentric (informal) (5)
  11. 22 a In 1906, 'terminological inexactitude', is what Winston Churchill called one of these (4)
  12. 23 a Surrender — deny (8)
  13. 1 d Imitation (4)
  14. 2 d Lack of agreement (7)
  15. 3 d It'll keep your drink hot (or cold) (7,5)
  16. 4 d Unoccupied (6)
  17. 6 d Double (5)
  18. 7 d Ambitious individual (2-6)
  19. 8 d Telling niece (anag) — secret information (12)
  20. 12 d Vindictive (8)
  21. 15 d Balkan country (7)
  22. 16 d Rightly or wrongly, for example (6)
  23. 18 d Overindulge (5)
  24. 19 d Small cheeky child (4)

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