Crossword for Fri, 19/Jan/2024

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Across
1: 23% of Scandinavians backing leaders (3)

3: Trimmed complicated test (7)

7: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

9: 27-across about starting off 1-down world unconditionally (2,3,2,4)

10: Consumed and digested tea (3)

11: Bouquet's sent up to network director? (5)

13: You say the apartment you let someone use is having a problem with gas? (9)

14: Playing on cello in A major's superior (7)

16: Essential part of Cayce's power! (3)

17: Cot is unmade for short month in fall (3)

18: Solo, the pilot rises? No way (3)

19: However, you expect trouble at first (3)

21: He enables a gambler (7)

22: It's an odor billowing from Indian dishes (9)

23: Last words from some hidden voices (5)

26: Song is a gas (3)

27: E.g., told story about cave-men (11)

29: Pious woman in underground hideaway (3)

30: Returning, some felt it necessary to provide grounds for legal claims (7)

31: Sound of river crossing (3)
Down
1: Goddess is against holding back one Quebecoise (5)

2: Transfixes the finger-tips (5)

3: Reportedly is nostalgic for wife (3)

4: Free up fuel distribution; its appalling (7)

5: Ape, bird, teal, buck (7)

6: 7-down relic? (6,5)

7: Shoos stray housecats (6 3)

8: One who watches set captor free (9)

12: 28 Invitation for man to get a cent on November 5? (5,3,3,3)

14: Force prisoners to exercise (9)

15: Long Rhine sequence in Wagner's work (9)

20: Expel the ones who show up (7)

21: Press against a container of Mexican beer and vodka (7)

24: Latin lives of Evita explained within (5)

25: Paper boy? (5)

28: Pass mould (3)




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