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Just looking for explanations please

9a Moland pink? (9) C?R?A?I?N carnation but why? I can see pink but not moland

3D Absent voices raised (4) A?A? away for absent for yawa - does that have some allusion to voices?

15A 3 of saying shoe? (9) ?R?G?E brogue but not seeing this either.

Clue 3 is above

Irish brogue?

3A; a "brogue" is a strong shoe and also a lilting Irish accent

Thanks for those helpful comments

3d yawa is a Papuan language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawa_language

Thanks

Mo(tor)land ie car-nation after the style of Motown?

Nice one ixion !!!

3D away is homophone of aweigh, meaning raised