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8 Bird sounds (6) 9 Historical British soldier (7) 11 Central support (8) 12 Smoothed with rasp (5) 14 Incursion (4) 15 London suburb (4,4) 17 Relating to office (8) 18 Lies (4) 20 Spoken exams (5) 21 Thomas or Oliver? (8) 23 Asian river (7) 24 Towards the back (6)

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2 Peninsula (6) 3 Holy (6) 4 Egg-shaped(4) 5 Constraint(7) 6 Help India (anag.) (9) 7 Clear mineral (9) 10 By and large (9) 12 Formal male garment (5-4) 13 Rescue vessels (9) 16 Spectators (7) 18 Extremely cold (6) 19 Garment shorter than 12 down (6) 22 Buddhist monk (4)