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Cryptic / Straight Crossword Puzzle

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Use cryptic clues, straight clues, or both to solve this puzzle. Cryptic clues are given first, the straight clue follows the "/".
Author: jondalah - Diff: Harder

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      1. Thus fathers make tonics / Fizzy drinks
      5. Had ultimately concealed becoming mature / Fully grown
      9. Peer six chaos comes to an end / Lapses
      10. A tree could be a consumer / Echidna: Australian Ant ___
      12. Even actions conceal a decree / Make into law
      14. Sounds like a dye will cease to exist / Expire
      15. Aye changes but keeps the same meaning / Affirmative
      17. Leave a Tibetan inhabitant / Species of antelope
      18. Hear airs, but this causes mistakes / Bungles
      20. None revision into the light / Inert gaseous element
      21. Nothing to exist for a colour / Mediterranean tree
      22. Middle of the day back and forward / Midday
      24. Understand a small branch? / Offshoot
      27. Rob around round / Globe
      28. Simpleton donkey / Onager
      30. Whinny, without question, is a hotel / Public accomodation
      31. Emits different things / Articles
      33. Inferior fiber from emu 'n goats / Fibrous material
      35. Drink and position, one would assume / Suspect
      36. Seven switches levels / Smoothes
      37. Tell stories about egest / Notable adventure or exploit

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      1. Listened to, swayed, and napped cloth / Swedish leather
      2. Put off in crude terror / Discourage
      3. Dismiss a hatchet / Cleaver (Australian English)
      4. Prays to take a sprite / Agile
      5. Arena loses a point for a district / Region
      6. Remodeled end study / Cave
      7. Habit is an American era / Custom
      8. Taint adjustment for a giant / Behemoth
      11. Atmosphere joins dock for a hanger / Aerodrome
      13. Regent follows a dove's sound for a roasting / Preparing food
      16. Leaves exist permutation / Departs
      19. Sounds like the sun is a boy / A relative
      20. Essential to tennis and butterfly catching / Take-home pay
      22. Nose contains one racket / Sound
      23. Nothing before mixed bees is fat / Overweight
      25. Whines loudly about vino / Alcoholic drinks
      26. Making no men hide a shorter man / Dwarf
      28. Snakes vary the pass / Vipers
      29. I left the strange gismo because of the haze / Air pollution
      32. An opening is mundane without a danish / The mouth
      34. Utilise deprived of letters can mean the same / Employ