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  1. 1 a Writer’s right to take liberties (6,7)
  2. 8 a Small lump, e.g. of butter (4)
  3. 9 a Signal that danger has passed (3,5)
  4. 10 a Unworldly academic’s dwelling? (5,5)
  5. 12 a Small quake (6)
  6. 14 a Roman emperor (6)
  7. 15 a Suspenseful (4-6)
  8. 19 a The ___ table (8)
  9. 20 a Cunning (4)
  10. 21 a Politically unscrupulous, as in The Prince (13)
  11. 2 d Consumer of plants and animals (8)
  12. 3 d Potato, say (5)
  13. 4 d Part of a book (7)
  14. 5 d Relative by marriage (2-3)
  15. 6 d Blow up (7)
  16. 7 d Show appreciation of (4)
  17. 11 d Tree which may have white or pink flowers (8)
  18. 13 d Masculine (7)
  19. 14 d Small, walled-off part of a room (7)
  20. 16 d Location of Lucknow and Bhopal (5)
  21. 17 d It gets wetter as it dries (5)
  22. 18 d Queen of the Olympian gods (4)

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