Crossword for Thu, 23/Nov/2023

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Across
1: Acted as rich person in plot (7)

5: Folds formal wear for the Speaker (5)

9: Kind of blue hereafter, at heart; this might tell what's to come? (3,4)

10: A game stuffing ketchup in balloons (7)

11: Row (but not in front) and get mixed up (5)

13: Focus of heroic move inside (9)

15: Prolong Austins suffering (7)

18: Name of place where cat ate a little horse? (7)

19: Glowering over textile activity (7)

20: Actor's second, and putting on a mad snit (5-2)

21: Make an attempt at a basket weaving (4,1,4)

23: Hellish center for immigration? (5)

25: Ejection of Jack from medieval competition (7)

27: Airless Australian variety of grape (7)

30: Blow the whistle on the end of Chinese burn (5)

31: Who has exploded about G having a lot of rubbish? (7)
Down
1: The end, you say? On the contrary! (3)

2: Sounds like a lot of cattle for sub- Antarctic island (5)

3: Compete with life in France (3)

4: Slangily, hip old English author (5)

5: Heavy metal group X (4)

6: Think at length about lost planet, comet (11)

7: Neat study trashed ... more at eleven (4,5)

8: Enticements disrupt mental rules (11)

11: Clearances for the first couple of characters to find answers. (11)

12: Arranged date in Cairo means extermination (11)

14: Radicchio tastes good in little bits. (5)

16: Dealers left out of catalogues (9)

17: Dark mysterious thing (5)

22: Hellish painter spoke piffle (5)

24: Pack animal shows up at a shopping centre (5)

26: Take a turn or a thousand dollars (3)

28: Carries most of sea-bird back. (3)

29: Residue has scattered (3)




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