RBM Crossword 34

4. Indirect comparison that uses the word “like” or “as” (6)
6. Deliberately not sharing information that is known (11)
8. Material used to add weight and stabilise a ship (7)
15. To come together again after a pause in proceedings (9)
16. Perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound, or tone (6)
17. In the tongue twister, "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled what?" (7)
18. Every single horse in the 2025 Kentucky Derby field is a descendant of which legendary American race horse? (11)
21. Right side of a ship when facing the bow (9)
23. Bridge in Bobby Gentry song that Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off (12)

1. Of little importance, value, or consequence (7)
2. Trevor Day's Saturday afternoon show (5,6)
3. Figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction. Seriously funny (8)
5. 1975's "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith was covered in 1986 by which rap band? (3,3)
7. Ragtag bunch of underdogs in the latest MCU film at The Edge (12*)
9. Wildly unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate (6)
10. Direct comparison that states one thing is another (8)
11. Left side of a ship when facing the bow (4)
12. The process or period of gathering in crops (7)
13. A day or period of celebration (8)
14. Genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the family Rutaceae (6)
19. Make someone or something late or slow (5)
20. According to the lyrics of John Lennon's, 'Nobody Told Me', there's a little yellow idol to the North of where? (9)
22. PM Anthony Albanese grew up in a council home in which inner West suburb (10)