Crossword for Sun, 25/Dec/2022

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Across
1: Don't cease ridiculous stories (9)

6: Accommodate bear (3,2)

9: Charles' equine edges out clown (9)

10: Prohibit couple from erotically wearing less clothing (5)

11: Take Chair in university (3)

13: Big flowers for VIPs? (4,7)

15: Irregular bouts of activity suit beach scrubbers (4,3,6)

18: Clearly notes Earths at a particular compass point (4-5-4)

23: Criticise a computer analysis of famous passage (6,5)

25: Polygraph unexpectedly traps vandal (3)

26: sliced again with cuter swing (5)

28: Mix tequila? Be fair! (9)

30: Something useful - like a matching collection? (5)

31: 'No to sobriety!' -- a cry going to produce unfortunate reputation (9)
Down
1: Dilapidated sofa contained initially some hot embers: something's burnt remains. (5, 2)

2: Emergency room stocks one sensitive organ (3)

3: Lived with hind-end whip mark (5)

4: Write to Dee about American the French roughed up (7)

5: Star's drug causes a dark patch (7)

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

7: Where some 16-downs fell, its beyond cover (3,4)

8: One who reads each consumer (7)

12: Child is to depart, finally (3)

14: Sit on the fish (5)

16: Like powerful uncle in Indian state? (5)

17: I am a Persian fairy starting to approach supreme powers (7)

18: Neuters wrestle majority of such neuters (7)

19: Central matter for physicists luncheon: rocks releasing hydrogen (7)

20: Foreign car, in neutral, crashed (7)

21: Residue has scattered (3)

22: Leather factory or solarium? (7)

24: Measure of beverage with even fewer calories? (5)

27: Worthless even when recycled (3)

29: Later round without an opponent (3)




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