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  1. 1 a Technocrat (anag) – belted outerwear (6,4)
  2. 7 a He’s half horse (7)
  3. 8 a Tend – nourish – sip (5)
  4. 10 a ___ we forget (4)
  5. 11 a Small – often yellow – finches found in the Azores and other islands (8)
  6. 13 a Chatterbox (6)
  7. 15 a Dotty dances? (6)
  8. 17 a Audacity (8)
  9. 18 a Peter the Great, eg (4)
  10. 21 a Machine for shaping, boring, facing, or cutting a screw thread in metal, wood, etc (5)
  11. 22 a Packed-in food fish (7)
  12. 23 a Days of yore (10)
  13. 1 d Grippers of salad or ice (5)
  14. 2 d Mild Dutch cheese shaped into globes with a red outer skin (4)
  15. 3 d Pen – OK, for one (6)
  16. 4 d Spicy bark in the kitchen (8)
  17. 5 d Green while high? (7)
  18. 6 d Green (10)
  19. 9 d Comfort (4,6)
  20. 12 d Most like Charlie Parker? (8)
  21. 14 d Destroy – basket (7)
  22. 16 d A shrew (anag) – nautical rope or cable (6)
  23. 19 d One going downhill fast (5)
  24. 20 d Scottish slope – Ye Banks and ___s (4)

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