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  1. 1 a Ready to eat (4)
  2. 3 a Small celestial body (8)
  3. 8 a Olive ___ – dreary (4)
  4. 9 a Rudeness (anag) (3,5)
  5. 11 a Vessel in the cold – conversation starter (10)
  6. 14 a Seventh ___ (6)
  7. 15 a Bread brand – agile (6)
  8. 17 a Means of access to a tree house, e.g. (4,6)
  9. 20 a The Greek one has 24 letters (8)
  10. 21 a Sports item thrown from behind an oche (4)
  11. 22 a Languid – unlike Santa? (8)
  12. 23 a Protection for inhabitants of high chairs (4)
  13. 1 d It means ‘stop’ (3,5)
  14. 2 d It goes between crockery and table(cloth) (5,3)
  15. 4 d American writer Susan, 1933–2004 (6)
  16. 5 d Promoting unity among branches of Christianity (10)
  17. 6 d It may bode good or evil (4)
  18. 7 d Where a newsreader sits (4)
  19. 10 d Mêlée (4-3-3)
  20. 12 d Largest UAE emirate (3,5)
  21. 13 d Accumulated debris (8)
  22. 16 d Dido’s love, for a spell (6)
  23. 18 d Grey, Marshal or Wessex (4)
  24. 19 d Mimics (4)

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