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31 Broadcast capturing hearts? Bung in a crowd-pleaser (4,7)

Looks like show stopper but I can’t parse it.

Hi SB,

broadcast = SOW (Chambers has 'sowing by broadcasting') around H(earts) + bung = STOPPER

SOW - broadcast (as seeds) with H for hearts, then STOPPER as a bung in a cask, for example.
The "capturing hearts" seems redundant, as "show" could also be used for "broadcast?

Thanks, it was the ‘hearts’ that puzzled me.

53a Earn dime? I'm going to work in restaurant (7)
D?s?r?e
Deserve?

44d An unending job for fixer, in the main (6)
Anchor I assume, but why is it an unending job?

24a Peacenik, observe: doctor, Scot or Latin type (9)
Looks like Colombian. I can see the rest but not why peacenik = co.

53 D(im)E SERVE
44 AN CHOR(e) (I don't like this one, as it would be "a", not "an"
24 CO - conscientious objector

Thank you ChrisE.

3 Down:- "Group turned around business before the New Year"
I make this OCTET, but I can't see where the New Year comes into it.

“Tet” is a spring festival celebrating the lunar new year

Thanks, Jono - I'd never heard of that festival.