Iq 1799

[hankir]

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.

Thanks.

[Neveracrossword]

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).

[Neveracrossword]

For 34, I have Sansus, Zimbabwean musical instruments. The K was, as you say, extra.

[ProfessorMaisie]

34 SANSAS (SANS 'without' 'lie[k]es on' AS 'ridge')

[ProfessorMaisie]

sorry, 'li[k]es on'...

[ProfessorMaisie]

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'

[ProfessorMaisie]

sorry, 'same' is part of the anag - the 'm' is from '[m]ending'.

[ProfessorMaisie]

...and in 10a 'me[a]l I' isn't an anagram - it's in order.

[hankir]

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.

[ProfessorMaisie]

It might help to know answer lengths for the thematics, hankir -
15a(6) 6d(3-6) 9d(3,9).

[ProfessorMaisie]

'identifier' something a child might have sewn in to a garment.

[ProfessorMaisie]

...it's not 'beef' but an insect these birds like.

[ProfessorMaisie]

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).

[ProfessorMaisie]

...extra 'N' in 28d 'N]at' = IN which 'has'/contains 'nothing'

[hankir]

Thanks ProfessorM.
The theme is now clear to me. Though I have not played this game in years.
What is the length of 15d?

[ProfessorMaisie]

11

[hankir]

Thanks ProfessorM.
All done.