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hankir | 14:58 Sat 15th Apr 2023 | Crosswords
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One letter has to be removed from each clue before solving.
The answer could be longer than the number given.

10. Tree family meal I serve one in Ayr (9)

15. New state gets all the rights tp case in point (5)

34 African musical instruments without likes on ridge (6) I think K is extra.

6d Put one's ultimate fate in ale, lager - and birds (7, 2 words)

9 Periodical reports shabby articles same poor captain's mending (8, 2 words) M could be extra.

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6, 9 and 15 are all thematic. Giving you the longer answers might be too revealing, and I don't know if you'd want to get there by yourself? Oh, and I think the theme might be very UK-ish!

10 The answer is a tree family, one of those botanical words. Some anagramming is involved (and the 'serve' is in tennis).
For 34, I have Sansus, Zimbabwean musical instruments. The K was, as you say, extra.
34 SANSAS (SANS 'without' 'lie[k]es on' AS 'ridge')
sorry, 'li[k]es on'...
10a extra is 'a' from the anagram 'me[a]l I' + another word for 'serve' (tennis) + AE (Scots 'one').
14a extra 's' - '[s]take' = R ('state' is a typo).
6d extra 'f' '[f]ate'
9 extra 'm' 'sa[m]e'
sorry, 'same' is part of the anag - the 'm' is from '[m]ending'.
...and in 10a 'me[a]l I' isn't an anagram - it's in order.
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Thanks NAC and ProfessorM.
I had ane for one in 10. Now solved.
What is Identifier in 1d?
6d. I can get meat consumers but the 4th letter is extra so parsing?

Hints on 11d, 28d and 31dinstead of the thematic ones.
It might help to know answer lengths for the thematics, hankir -
15a(6) 6d(3-6) 9d(3,9).
'identifier' something a child might have sewn in to a garment.
...it's not 'beef' but an insect these birds like.
11d - the def is '[b]reached'.
28d 'horsepower in German' is abbrev PS (def 'particle').
31d extra 'o' '[o]bit of Byzantine Empire' is the def for a region - but 'topic' is another synonym (this 'bit' was new to me, hankir).
...extra 'N' in 28d 'N]at' = IN which 'has'/contains 'nothing'
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Thanks ProfessorM.
The theme is now clear to me. Though I have not played this game in years.
What is the length of 15d?
11
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Thanks ProfessorM.
All done.

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