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  1. 1 a ____ as sin (4)
  2. 3 a Tales – financial holdings (8)
  3. 9 a It means the same thing (7)
  4. 10 a Afresh (5)
  5. 11 a Meanwhile back at the ____ (5)
  6. 12 a Bumpy – odd? (6)
  7. 14 a It’s meant to make you buy (13)
  8. 17 a Country with two million lakes (6)
  9. 19 a Fauna’s counterpart (5)
  10. 22 a Do as a volcano may do (5)
  11. 23 a Lettuce type named for a geological feature (7)
  12. 24 a Ingress (8)
  13. 25 a Arouse – kerfuffle (4)
  14. 1 d Closer to the water’s source (8)
  15. 2 d Articles of cotton etc (5)
  16. 4 d Moan comic unit (anag) (13)
  17. 5 d approx 28 grams (5)
  18. 6 d Going ____ fast (7)
  19. 7 d Word after ‘Simon’ or before ‘who?’ (4)
  20. 8 d News presenter – it stops the yacht (6)
  21. 13 d Not a friend – increasingly odd (8)
  22. 15 d Structure by which a train may cross a valley (7)
  23. 16 d Towering figure in Paris architecture (6)
  24. 18 d ____ careful consideration (5)
  25. 20 d Patent – plain – public (5)
  26. 21 d Hereditary determinant of specified difference between individuals (4)

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