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  1. 1 a Composer, CPE or JS? (4)
  2. 3 a Atmospheric gas (8)
  3. 9 a Russian playwright (7)
  4. 10 a Defendable (5)
  5. 11 a Succumb to giddiness (5)
  6. 12 a Rile (6)
  7. 14 a Wartime campaign slogan (3,3,7)
  8. 17 a Butcher, at times (6)
  9. 19 a Lot hammer? (5)
  10. 22 a Nonsense (5)
  11. 23 a Pet (7)
  12. 24 a Improve (as in the appearance of an image) (8)
  13. 25 a Twelve (4)
  14. 1 d Rear (8)
  15. 2 d Cored (anag.) (5)
  16. 4 d Alcohol will free the tongue (2,4,7)
  17. 5 d Spike (5)
  18. 6 d Italian astronomer (7)
  19. 7 d Sans clothes (4)
  20. 8 d ‘Way of the gods’ in Japan (6)
  21. 13 d Plant with backward-turned petals (8)
  22. 15 d Allurement (7)
  23. 16 d Telling (6)
  24. 18 d Screen (5)
  25. 20 d Star sign (5)
  26. 21 d Design (4)

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