Crossword for Wed, 24/Jan/2024

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Across
1: Resist having platform (9)

6: Vegetable factory? (5)

9: Starshine somehow loses its shine (9)

10: Irish playwright livin soundly (5)

11: Going after the final piece of puzzle for a very long time (3)

13: Exegesis of clue an idiot misunderstood (11)

15: Scenery has to get down by starting 12-across (7,6)

18: Challenge the bench in retaliation. (13)

23: Check strong drink of 22-acrosss bold alter ego (5,6)

25: Grant loud colour (3)

26: Fortunate brave gets a late start (5)

28: Faced lift-off when stricken (9)

30: Faith in Osiris, lamentably (5)

31: English poet holding us responsible for hold-up? (9)
Down
1: It's news broadcast for a seer (7)

2: Start reducing salt? (3)

3: Musical composition pleasing to the ear (5)

4: Heads of Asian countries hope the United Nations gives attention to Germany (7)

5: On the way back, I had to keep calm and concentrate (7)

6: at peoples uptown bar for starters? (3)

7: Unbeliever attending robbery (7)

8: They occupy the space of many workers (7)

12: Capture ten heading north (3)

14: Unease from irritating gnats (5)

16: Eskimo intuitions are half-developed (5)

17: Interminably bother crook for one pasta dish (7)

18: Assembly said Dracula's sick (7)

19: OJ rants about USC football players (7)

20: Rejections concern enthusiasts (7)

21: What's left when you burn the tree (3)

22: Sounds like one having requirements for masseur (7)

24: She literally describes high society (5)

27: Root for mounting might (3)

29: Mann's 'Death in Venice' Dorothy sent up (3)




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