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  1. 1 a Taste (4)
  2. 3 a Almost certain loser – served with orange sauce? (4,4)
  3. 8 a Cross (4)
  4. 9 a Chinese dish (4,4)
  5. 11 a 1990s phrase for a film for a female? (5,5)
  6. 14 a Acquisitive (6)
  7. 15 a High or low spirits (6)
  8. 17 a Iridescent sphere (4,6)
  9. 20 a Silvery-white metal (8)
  10. 21 a Hindu philosophy (4)
  11. 22 a Angled gun, used in the trenches (8)
  12. 23 a Doing nowt (4)
  13. 1 d Domesticated parrot’s home? (8)
  14. 2 d Controversial (3-5)
  15. 4 d Let out a breath (6)
  16. 5 d Songs of early birds (4,6)
  17. 6 d Ruse (anag) (4)
  18. 7 d Charles – or chesspiece? (4)
  19. 10 d That’s no joke! (1,3,3,3)
  20. 12 d Ill-feeling (3,5)
  21. 13 d Love song (8)
  22. 16 d Tidy (6)
  23. 18 d Inscribe deeply (4)
  24. 19 d Keep (4)

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