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  1. 1 a In shock (13)
  2. 8 a Speculative behaviour (7)
  3. 9 a Rationale (5)
  4. 10 a Very thin (4)
  5. 11 a Hidden (8)
  6. 13 a Book pages (6)
  7. 14 a It’s a tip (6)
  8. 17 a Desire (8)
  9. 19 a Manicurist’s tool (4)
  10. 21 a Play it slowly (5)
  11. 22 a Inundated (7)
  12. 24 a Study of fossils (13)
  13. 1 d Old watch chain (3)
  14. 2 d Insect’s super-sensitive part (7)
  15. 3 d Find two on a wicket (4)
  16. 4 d Fixed (an election, say) (6)
  17. 5 d Having a bad reaction to something (8)
  18. 6 d Mean – and drunk (5)
  19. 7 d Moral decline (9)
  20. 10 d Bungled dive (5,4)
  21. 12 d Tall plant support (8)
  22. 15 d Before (5,2)
  23. 16 d Strongly urge (6)
  24. 18 d T S Eliot’s cruellest month (5)
  25. 20 d Local ____, 1983 Bill Forsyth film (4)
  26. 23 d Vote against the motion (3)

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