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  1. 1 a Luxury car (4)
  2. 3 a Make more daring (8)
  3. 9 a Deer meat (7)
  4. 10 a Forest predator (5)
  5. 11 a Ballroom dance (5)
  6. 12 a Decorated with petals etc. (6)
  7. 14 a Don’t hold back (2,3,5,3)
  8. 17 a Muslim salutation (6)
  9. 19 a Paris underground (5)
  10. 22 a Swift’s ‘brute in human form’ (5)
  11. 23 a City in Lebanon or in Libya (7)
  12. 24 a Problem – hangover symptom (8)
  13. 25 a Unappealing (4)
  14. 1 d Influence (8)
  15. 2 d Note with a white head (5)
  16. 4 d Player’s accolade (3,2,3,5)
  17. 5 d Exceed (5)
  18. 6 d Two letters giving one sound (7)
  19. 7 d Standard (4)
  20. 8 d Landed property (6)
  21. 13 d Disgrace (8)
  22. 15 d Part of the respiratory system (7)
  23. 16 d Clear (6)
  24. 18 d Scent (5)
  25. 20 d Minimal undergarment (5)
  26. 21 d (Widely believed) fiction (4)

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