The unclued entries comprise two authors and a work of fiction, attributed by one author to the other. Each author occupies two unclued entries. Four of the unclued entries are two words each.
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1 Tea service that needs to be done again for villa (6)
7 Remote republic gets peace from Spain back (6)
13 Automated assistant hailed – they’re high (5)
16 Crazy French soul gets title there (6)
20 Repelling germ, throws away rubbish (7)
21 Shiny metal wheels covering start of trip (6)
22 Neither alternative accepted by Russian denial (3,3)
24 Undertaker perhaps fixing...
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