Telegraph Cryptic Answers - Tuesday, 31st January 2023

There are 16 across clues and 16 down clues for the Telegraph Cryptic crossword on Tuesday, 31st January 2023. View the answers below..

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Number#	Clue	Answer
AAcross 4:	Lettuce variety firm and small
AAcross 8:	Stay within budget, as Chunnel consortium had to?	MAKE BOTH ENDS MEET
AAcross 9:	Home not yet marvellous?
AAcross 10:	Tom Sawyer maybe rude: tavern in uproar!
AAcross 11:	Compete against Liberal cutting wages
AAcross 12:	Greek deity once featured in two articles
AAcross 14:	26 in 11, Spaniards eat more nuts	DRAMATIS PERSONAE
AAcross 15:	Amply bearded king in his utility vehicle?
AAcross 17:	Do we hear Capone is mocking African port?
AAcross 21:	See 14 Across	DRAMATIS PERSONAE
AAcross 23:	O! Aren't bananas sumptuous?
AAcross 25:	Hot body that ultimately squeezes into short sari
AAcross 26:	Cleaner moving crates and cases
AAcross 28:	Brownie perhaps arrived with artist
AAcross 29:	See 8 Across	MAKE BOTH ENDS MEET
AAcross 30:	Stick man?
DDown 1:	Robber born with that certain something …
DDown 2:	… something inherited in Guernsey regularly
DDown 3:	Difference shown by prisoner getting fresh start
DDown 4:	Had race fixed – that's a ridiculous pretence
DDown 5:	Having role in South Africa's ancient city
DDown 6:	Enticement in crude panto time after time
DDown 7:	Spanish wine and pork pie right for royalist
DDown 12:	Timber lifting in Noah's Ark
DDown 13:	Natural way to achieve financial independence?	EASY STREET
DDown 16:	He is the lightest one!	INERT GAS
DDown 18:	Age concealed by fat old polymath
DDown 19:	Perkins or Lawley say to take legal action
DDown 20:	Romeo over the moon and part of the family
DDown 22:	Sweet drink to hand when holding court
DDown 24:	Sailor to attain goal
DDown 27:	Boring master