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The unclued lights (two of two words, and the rest paired) are of a kind.   Across 1    Book with smears around comments on jackets (6) 7    Fashions in stationers (6) 11    Made supple, brewing old-time ale (10) 14    US novelist left out, downstairs (5) 15    Wife and marine attacked telegraph fitter (7) 17    One of England’s winners in Moscow — or loss!

One of the clued lights below reveals the theme which Brewer confirms. One of the unclued lights is not paired as the others are. Two successively numbered unclued lights form one of the theme words.

The unclued lights are of a kind. Ignore all accents and diacritical marks throughout the puzzle. The fifth letter of each of the nine unclued lights reveal A BASS FUEL.

The unclued lights (two of two words) can be all be preceded by the same word which solvers have to highlight appropriately in the completed grid. All are confirmed in Brewer apart from one, which is not listed in Chambers either (surprisingly).

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 pudding (6, three words) 18    Brief period of enchantment (5) 20    Select group at lake bed, first (7) 22    Regular terminus — no less — for Badminton Horse Trials participant (7) 24    Because Santa left, station wagon crashed (7, two words) 25    Girl cried ‘It hurt a bit!

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 fortune is keeping time (7) 19    Top performer and soothsayer, regularly (4) 22    Manageable while oddly dismissing odds all day!

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.

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.

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 PO items (6) 17    Spenser’s questioning adding a seal (8) 21    Might they roughly bisect Arctic Ocean for starters?

The unclued lights (one of two words) are of a kind.

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 (7) 18    Non-A roads are where to meet (6) 19    It’s under the window, not moving, timeless (4) 22    Old-fashioned people buried here?

The unclued lights (one of two words — ignore its accent) are of a kind.

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 chest of drawers, having lost the CD (9) 9    Proficiency with or without sporting award (10) 11    Major’s wife cuts sailor’s bar short (5) 12    Cocktail attachment (7) 14    Give in and give out (5) 15    Give a clue concerning ‘tape’ (5) 16    River — one other one. Gracious!

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 words) 16 What may be caught with a rod — a rod (5) 17 Strips, rubs gently and beats (7) 18 Pipe second carol outside Kings (7) 20 Those assailing verbally about to take on loathsome heartless rebels (8) 25    Just a bit of cement added (3) 26    Run faster than dismissal speed?

The unclued lights are of a kind. Elsewhere, ignore one apostrophe.

Clues are presented in alphabetical order of their solutions. The solutions have then to be fitted into the grid, jigsaw-fashion.

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 these unclued lights reveal HADDOCKS’ HERB GARDEN LTD. Elsewhere, ignore an apostrophe.

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.

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.