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Need some help with a few..
1a. Monster book used by firemen (7)
2d. Follow piano, to confuse at a stroke (3,6)
4d. Tourist confused the French clergyman with valet (9)
14d. Careless defence group with a lot to think about, say (9)
17d. Exasperated expert by sending brat home, finally (8)
Thanks...

4d) traveller

14d) unguarded

2d. dog paddle

1a. Dracula?

17d If the first word should be 'exasperate'

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1a) hydra nt

Thanks guys . andyc...it's not 'unguarded' - third letter is an m and I believe it ends with an L
Now..21d..US novelist pursues loud trivia (5)
7d. Cooked mutton, having no time for horse (5)

Claxbypluckacre...not Dracula but hydrant ...Thanks anyways...

unmindful?