Nine unclued lights (with one doing double duty) can be arranged into a possible quiz show announcement with the word lengths: 2,4,3,7,6,3,7,7,2,4,2,4,4,2,4,5. The three remaining unclued lights are possible answers. Elsewhere, ignore one accent. Across 4 Democracies do wrong without desserts (3,6) 9 English artist having month involved with 38 (6,4) 11 Evaluate report for show (5) 12 Colonist who pays the bill?
The unclued lights, including a pair and six of two words, form an association which a normal entry clearly suggests.
The title wrote three unclued lights (one of two words) with the letter-count (3,8,6,4), whose members are the other unclued lights (two pairs, another of two words and a singleton). Solvers must highlight the singleton’s missing moniker hidden in the completed grid. Across 11 Half the beans initially seem superfluous accompanying hot paste with chillis (7) 12 Seashore grass blowing back and forth (6) 14 Just a moment for A.
The unclued four-letter solutions can be paired in a particular way to form the four remaining eight-letter unclued lights. Across 1 Burns searches thoroughly around Union Street (8) 5 Developed green, variable power (6) 10 Labour man’s entertaining turn (5,5) 12 Irish backing chorister on Venetian bridge (6) 13 New tune outside? (5,3) 16 Account of help sent back to railway (5) 17 US cocktail that’s pungent (7) 18 Sporting cry in match – touch and go, finally (5-2) 20 Sunday crossword for Tom, Dick and Harry (8) 25 Stiff paper, way-out neckwear?
The unclued lights (including a pair) are of a kind. Across 3 No manual required for addict at pre-season match (4-8) 10 Old store attendants operating on different levels (4-3) 11 Extra name in article about garden feature (7) 13 Room spray distributed to armies (8) 16 Newspaper aunt’s torment (5) 19 Mum, almost for ever, in ward (9) 22 Cast is enormous, but not good (3) 24 Unemployable boffin regularly by river (2,2,3) 25 Have some sense – charge pounds!
The unclued lights (including a pair, one word of which has to be read in reverse) are each somehow related to one other. Two grid entries are of two words and one (jocular) entry has four words and includes an apostrophe. Across 10 Where lines meet new lines (4) 12 Payment to landlord as the Earth moved?
The unclued lights (two of two words) are of a kind. Across 1 Awards for very large Cadillacs, say (6) 11 Dave, Keith and I reviewed viceroy’s territory (10) 14 Basque cap with pillowcase on end of cot (5) 15 During performance, steal a jumper (7) 18 Healthy food on the golf course (6) 22 Scottish 37 destroyed sledge (6) 25 Heart of the justification for isle (5) 26 Suave young socialite is lost, commentating on TMS?
The unclued lights become phrases, verifiable in Brewer, when their first (or, in one case, last) undefined word is added. One normal solution (also thematic in a way) includes the red and yellow names. Ignore all accents.
The unclued lights form four trios each associated with one of four theme words which solvers must discover and which do not appear in the grid. The 27 unchecked letters of these unclued lights for the wholly irrelevant comment: SO, DOC, CHARM EVELYN, GIRL FROM BBC.
The unclued lights are of a kind and are listed in Chambers. Across 1 Dry duck takes in energy drink (8) 6 Least exciting exam takes a minute (6) 10 Place for improvement?
The unclued lights, two of which accommodate two theme words, can be sorted into four trios of related words, each forming a reducing chain of 6, 5 and 4 letters. Across 11 Disentangle one French composer (7) 14 Department having some bargain dresses (5) 16 Annoying children – crazy right through (5) 19 Surfer returned French hooter at 1.10 (7) 21 Something penned by Lehar, I assume?
The unclued lights, four of two words, two individually or six pairs bear a common feature. One of the words does double duty, and another appears in two forms. Ignore three accents in the completed grid. Across 1 Criminal having cheese biscuit that’s not bad (4-7) 7 Found in cage in tribunal (3) 13 You and I will get lost first with it becoming brighter than 39! (4-3) 16 G and S operas at hotel that’s amongst the greens (5) 17 Scottish challenge at the poultry farm, unendingly (6) 18 Scowl at cow?
The unclued lights (one of three words) are of a kind and can be verified in Brewer, whose spelling is used.
The unclued lights (one of two words) are of a recent kind.
The unclued Across lights are of a kind, as are the related unclued Down lights. The yellow and red squares, when read in order row by row, confirm the theme. Across 1 Feel rip-off by stewards providing obligatory features on board (4,10) 11 Section of grammar review of Aeneid (three chapters) (9) 17 Pulling evenly, stripped part of a bone (5) 20 Vintage model – it crashed (3-4) 21 Daub top layers of special paint on gatehouse (7) 24 Threaten to drive around small state (7) 25 Learn about description of organ (5) 26 Passions and fashions!
The unclued lights (three pairs and two individually and two of which are of two words) are now of a kind. Across 1 Spice rack item revealed by horse and page (3,4) 11 Plenty of space, we’re told, for nursing with a head cold (6) 12 Deserts featuring brown palms (7) 14 Nasty creature in the presidential car! (5) 15 Cold – it’s good wearing a hat!
The unclued lights (two of two words) comprise two celebrity pairs which are represented by a singleton, two pairs (one ‘In memoriam’) and a trio of lights .
The unclued lights may be arranged to form a chain of words from three to eleven letters in length, each one being an anagram of its predecessor and one additional letter. One of these lights is hyphened. Elsewhere ignore an acute accent.
The 12 six-letter unclued lights bear a common feature, different in each case, but ignore one hyphen. Across 1 Put up a hammock for son with Heather (5) 4 One lies drunk after attempt to restore equilibrium (9) 9 After seven days, say, shall journalist be wimpish? (4-6) 11 Muse was, for Caesar, love (5) 12 Cunard cruise finally turned to French river (7) 14 Vocalist shortly to be a scorcher (5) 15 Just a bit of a fight!
