Crossword for Tue, 4/Jul/2023

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Across
1: Mary-Jane crochets her Pop a jumper (11)

7: Fathers start to applaud, in afterthought (3)

9: Gymnast produces hybrid of car and boat (7)

10: Conclude it was no place of intense heat (7)

11: Sounds like a bright child (3).

12: Scarf free tacos (5)

13: Scotsman to notice fundamental singular metaphysical entity (5)

14: I've lost struggle (3)

16: Crook skimmed cash register? (3)

17: Mailer's reinterpreted depiction of the way things are (7)

19: Tipsy couple's getting intimate (5, 2)

21: Feel sick from crack? (3)

22: First get a French weapon. (3)

23: Wives' strange ideas (5)

25: . . . or working with one group of stars (5)

26: Find out scout (3)

28: Conceive of gain (7)

29: A letter from Greece - about a sort of April flower (7)

30: Consumed, beginning at the end (3)

31: Bill board reflected family meal extra (5,6)

Down
1: Good girl's drink container (5)

2: In favour of an outer garment for protection (5)

3: Busier man accidentally sinking ship (9)

4: Iridescent stone contains quirk having to do with vision (7)

5: Hand dog (7)

6: Sailor offers thanks to the British resistance (3)

7: Pop not buying mom and pop art? (9)

8: Dons swarm all around fencer (9)

14: Other way round!, deputy angrily avers (4,5)

15: He's last to kiss a rat--she's close, it's clear (9)

18: A country inn, a great building (9)

20: Wanderer features in ones best adage (7)

21: Caught sight of leaderless French church embracing a politician. (7)

24: Shy away from women's clothing (5)

26: Tuck's in a bad way, unable to move. (5)

27: Do the young work for long? (5)





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