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  1. 1 a Nitwit (5,5)
  2. 7 a Remove the fastenings from (7)
  3. 8 a Smallish, colourful songbird (5)
  4. 10 a Twilight (4)
  5. 11 a Bright red mineral – ran cabin (anag.) (8)
  6. 13 a Attractive house, in adspeak (3,3)
  7. 15 a Somnolent (6)
  8. 17 a Hallucinatory, altered state of mind (8)
  9. 18 a Language, source of ‘khaki’ and ‘purdah’ (4)
  10. 21 a Roughneck (5)
  11. 22 a Complicated geometrical figure or pattern (7)
  12. 23 a Minuscule (5-5)
  13. 1 d Dismisses (5)
  14. 2 d Pb (4)
  15. 3 d Affluent young banker, e.g. (6)
  16. 4 d Foot soldiers (8)
  17. 5 d Medieval weapon (7)
  18. 6 d Old-fashioned person (5-5)
  19. 9 d Loud commotion (5-5)
  20. 12 d Erode (4,4)
  21. 14 d As salt is in water (7)
  22. 16 d Hearty laugh (6)
  23. 19 d Irritable (5)
  24. 20 d Roué (4)

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