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The unclued lights (one individually and five pairs) are of a kind.   Across 1    German leader put stuff back into soup (8) 5    More lascivious-sounding marketeer (6) 9    Powerless to operate, having drunk UK brown ale (10) 14    Ceilidh lacks odd members of antiquity (3) 16    Tries half the fish at 42 with starchy

The unclued lights, three of two words and four pairs are of a kind. Elsewhere, ignore two accents.   Across 11    Arable plant making money, including capital – a grand (10, hyphened) 14    The occasion, we’re told, for tears (5) 15    Express excitement about the sun at start of evening (7) 17    Sound producer’s good

The unclued lights, (two of two words), individually or as a pair, are of a kind and can be resolved into three separate trios. Ignore all accents and apostrophes throughout the puzzle. The highlighted squares, read in order row by row, reveal the sources of the trios.   Across 7/8   The whole capital of Hainaut

Each of the eight unclued lights is a series of letters in alphabetical order which can be formed into eight theme words. Elsewhere, ignore two accents.   Across 1    Book from Goon, having siesta disturbed (12) 10    Second-in-command’s deviant practice (4) 12    Gave permission and reportedly went under, getting ignored (10) 14/40     French pal, tense,

A word suggested by the title can either precede or follow each of the unclued lights to form phrases listed in Brewer.   Across 10    5’s musical art on car plate (12) 11    Chosen the front bits of 40 (5) 13    Artwork showing most of red face cover turned over (7) 14    Crushes forms and

The unclued lights (one of two words) are of a kind.   Across   1    Confines at convenience stores (5) 4    Prison visitor, not in Rolls Royce, sadly places eggs for fertilization (9) 11    Over half the train to Dover isn’t broad-gauge (6) 14    Range of school note (5) 15    I left seafood dish for

The unclued lights (one of two words) are of a kind. Elsewhere, ignore three accents. Across 1    Unethical point of an Aesop fable (6) 11    Improve, making Oriel, accommodated by a fellow (10) 13    3 in Casablanca in the wet season (5) 14    This psychotherapist poor Leonard can’t take on (5) 15    Oration about province

The unclued lights (one of two words — ignore its accent) are of a kind.   Across 1    I’m the proctor, circulating and turning away from the heat (12) 10    Stone, almost black, with one diamond inside (4) 12    Moonlight escape around river turning into a brief liaison (10) 14    Leader of Indians accepting thanks

The unclued lights (one of two words and one hyphened) when preceded by a five–letter word are phrases listed in Brewer. Solvers have to locate and highlight this five-letter word which appears as an inverted L in the completed grid.   Across 1    Enter the world with thick hair concealing head (5) 4    Abandons damaged

The unclued lights, when paired, are of a kind, the first word in each pair being thematic. Two of the unclued lights, one of which is plural, do double duty. One pair has a literary reference, too.   Across   5    Cross as a sign (6) 10    I left millionaire mixing petroleum distillate (10, two

The unclued lights are of a kind. Elsewhere, ignore one apostrophe.   Across 2    Means to call poor chaperone about decline in wind backing (13, two words) 11    Department providing gold and beryllium (4) 14    Favouring women in front (4) 15    Standstill at Aussie thicket (10, hyphened) 18    Interprets text, having no time for steps (5) 19    Feel

Clues are presented in alphabetical order of their solutions. The solutions have then to be fitted into the grid, jigsaw-fashion. A    Striving for scope backing number one (8) A    Tense lover short of money (6) B     Child’s first book and game (10) C     Mark in vehicle beside French joiner (5) C     Made money around outhouse

The unclued Across lights become thematic when a suffix is appended. The individual unclued Down lights (one a proper noun) also become thematic when a different suffix is appended; 1 Down consists of three further words which individually become thematic in the same way as the unclued Down ones do. The unchecked letters of all

The subtraction reveals the link between the unclued lights which saw light then. Three unclued lights consist of two words, and others form four pairs. In addition, a personal announcement is revealed clue by clue, for starters.   Across 1    Jaunty seat astern with hot bearing (13, two hyphens) 9    Unitarian’s cross, interrupted by vulgar

The unclued four-letter words can be paired in a particular way to form the remaining unclued lights, one of two words. Elsewhere, ignore two accents.   Across 1    Border force on bank guarding river (8) 5    View of a hill removed from a magazine (6) 10    Take steps against token performance (10) 12    As a

The unclued lights, (two of two words), are of a kind. Chambers does not give the solution at 12 Across. So as to avoid alternative thematic solutions at 28A, solvers should know that the first letter is the same as the final one.    Across 2    Amblers won’t be adapting military item (13, three words)

This puzzle is a landmark for D(0)C: his first crossword appeared in The Spectator in the issue dated July 4th 1981 and his puzzles have appeared almost every third week since then. The unclued lights (three of two words) and the others when paired correctly represent initially the total which D(0)C reaches with this puzzle.