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Eight unclued lights (highlighted in the grid) are thematic. They are of a kind. If you would like to work on the interactive version, click on this link that will take you to the Crossword Compiler website.

Across

1 Thematic word (5)

6 Thematic word (6)

10 Tailored aim, properly presented is tending to intercede between warring parties (11)

11 Thematic word (11)

13 Promiscuous woman’s skittish lust (4)

14 Artist has recipe for fat obtained from animal skins (6)

15 Strangely see, insist and render more delicate in reaction (9)

18 Informal handcuff – pair allowed (8)

19 Girl loses direction – a fool (3)

20 Thematic word (3)

22 Unusual sales for soap ingredient (8)

26 Believer in rigorous dictatorship instals it badly (9)

28 Broods of birds around as immature ones (6)

30 Tiny arachnid’s strength, so we hear (4)

31 As a soft idea, modelled gum resin (11)

32 Minutely notched mountain range with erratic altitude, lacking a hint of interest and depth (11)

33 Gross and drunkenly hearty (6)

34 Counter dizzy reel after beginning of music (5)

Down

1 Wrong – as good as a 30dn (5)

2 Milk, endearments, warmth, love, even rocking primarily needed for a feebly crying child (6)

3 Onions to oddly smear with oil (according to old poet) (4)

4 Most unpleasant name as matches followed by consent finally (8)

5 At the French contest ultimately, learner spear thrower (6)

6 Provoked but not very, made a wry face once (4)

7 Surprisingly gifted restless person (6)

8 Learned Irish man’s savoury dish with a bit of venison (5)

9 Confused noises, purely intellectual perception (6)

12 Thematic word (6)

16 Soft leathers backing Brazil wood (6)

17 Fine furrow on half of abnormal swelling in the great ganglion of the forebrain (8)

20 Thematic word (6)

21 Grubbing up of trees and bushes as special practical skill (6)

23 Numbers of ships in shallow creeks (6)

24 European political community’s property (6)

25 Rabies slays horribly (5)

27 Thematic word (5)

29 Thematic word (4)

30 Unit mailed with publicity removed item by item (4)

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