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24a Delays caused by decks burning (5,4)
Is the answer HOLDS FIRE please?

If so, that puts out what I want to put as the answer to 23d One's plan is to create some room (8,8)

Your help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

I think the answer is HANGS FIRE, giving a better answer for the down clue

Thank you very much, Smiffy, that's what I wanted to hear. I just kept thinking there's a hold on a ship as there is a deck.... Is the wordplay "hangs" as in "decks" - to kill, or am I, as usual, missing something simpler?

Think decks the halls with boughs of holly.

Has anyone got 56a. English trees? Nonsense (7)

Could you explain it to me?

56a E yew ash