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  1. 1 a 1913 D. H. Lawrence novel (4,3,6)
  2. 8 a Great Expectations hero (3)
  3. 9 a Last leader of the USSR (9)
  4. 10 a Underwear and nightwear (8)
  5. 11 a Biblical victim of fratricide (4)
  6. 13 a Highest point (6)
  7. 14 a Humid – passionate (6)
  8. 16 a Timid (4)
  9. 17 a Place for ablutions (8)
  10. 20 a Captain Cook’s vessel – Inspector Morse’s name (9)
  11. 21 a Maker of mischief (3)
  12. 22 a Brainwashed (13)
  13. 1 d Part of a calyx (5)
  14. 2 d The witticism is purely fortuitous (2,3,8)
  15. 3 d Increases (8)
  16. 4 d British naturalist (6)
  17. 5 d Egg-shaped (4)
  18. 6 d Show-off (13)
  19. 7 d Sausage (7)
  20. 12 d Kind of Protestant (8)
  21. 13 d African river flowing into the Indian Ocean (7)
  22. 15 d Toil (6)
  23. 18 d Two-wheeler (5)
  24. 19 d Often perfumed powder (4)

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