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1 Warning signal (5,4) 6 __ Fleming, author (3)

8 Protective cover (6) 9 Reasoned thought (5)

10 Type of bomb or clock (6)

11 Soaks up (7)

13 Method of doing something (7)

16 Austrian capital (6) 18 Showing keen desire or interest (5)

19 Impetuously (6)

21 Sprinted (3)

22 Private conversation (4-1-4)

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1 __ Gardner, actress (3)

2 Maxim (5)

3 Wonderful or marvellous (7) 4 Birds of prey (6)

5 Delay or loiter (6) 7 Required (9)

8 Hired driver (9) 12 State of southern

Germany (7)

14 Stand-in

monarch (6)

15 Uneasy or

troubled state (6) 17 Follow (5)

20 Deliberate

falsehood (3)