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  1. 1 a Need to drink (6)
  2. 4 a Extremely unconventional (3-3)
  3. 8 a Private ___ , 1930 Noel Coward comedy (5)
  4. 9 a Powerful individual (3,4)
  5. 10 a Building (7)
  6. 11 a Move unsteadily (5)
  7. 12 a Treasury (9)
  8. 17 a Large group (5)
  9. 19 a Marched up and down (7)
  10. 21 a Go in all directions (7)
  11. 22 a It's made to do the heavy lifting (5)
  12. 23 a Notice (6)
  13. 24 a Compelling (6)
  14. 1 d Cashier (6)
  15. 2 d Request for payment (7)
  16. 3 d Raw fish and rice dish (5)
  17. 5 d Maya ___ , US writer, poet and civil rights activist, d. 2014 (7)
  18. 6 d Alternative (5)
  19. 7 d Easily annoyed (6)
  20. 9 d What Sherlock Holmes became in retirement (9)
  21. 13 d Judaeo-Christian God (7)
  22. 14 d Unnecessary rules (3,4)
  23. 15 d One drink after another? (6)
  24. 16 d Most strange (6)
  25. 18 d Sphere (5)
  26. 20 d Fast car (5)

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