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  1. 1 a Big win! (7)
  2. 8 a Let go (7)
  3. 9 a More flamboyant — enthusiast (7)
  4. 10 a Square of rich chocolate cake (7)
  5. 11 a Cathy (anag) (5)
  6. 13 a Clean with a compressed air jet (9)
  7. 15 a Language invented by a Pole in 1887 — no repeats (anag) (9)
  8. 18 a Siberian city, founded by Tsar Boris Godunov in 1604 (5)
  9. 21 a Reduce in worth (7)
  10. 22 a Unending (7)
  11. 23 a Illustrious (7)
  12. 24 a Muslim women's veil (7)
  13. 1 d Moment (5)
  14. 2 d Rounded and pointed (5)
  15. 3 d Colour remover (5,8)
  16. 4 d Headdress (6)
  17. 5 d 1983 Willy Russell musical (5,8)
  18. 6 d Eye part (6)
  19. 7 d Atacama, for example (6)
  20. 12 d Coalition led by Germany, with Italy and Japan, in WWII (4)
  21. 14 d Lather (4)
  22. 15 d Deliberately avoid (6)
  23. 16 d Full of romantic imagery (6)
  24. 17 d Cardinal number (6)
  25. 19 d Musical note (5)
  26. 20 d Prosperous peasant farmer in pre-Stalinist Russia (5)

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