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Unclued lights, across single or double entries, one entry used twice, follow a theme which is also thus represented.

The unclued lights (two of two words) can be arranged to form the first line of a poem and the name of the poet. Across 1 One reprimanded over nothing is kept apart (8) 6 Chinese way of brewing clear tea with miso (6) 13    Rows hard cycling (5) 14    Medic’s misfortune in morning – a blockage (7) 15    Potentially crossed in game; Jenga club will crumble at last! (10) 16    Extra spicy fajitas for starter?

The unclued lights are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. Across 5 Parodies reflecting works of Shakespeare primarily (6) 9 A fishy character found the lady’s not hard to gauge (10) 16    Briefly research arm’s length trade on Vinted?

All but one of the unclued lights are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. The remaining one links the others. Ignore one apostrophe and two accents. Across 12    Prepare linguine vongole starter for opening ceremony (9) 13    Two guys retiring to Hawaiian island (5) 15    Cartoonists redesign a main story, cutting the end (9) 16    Letter about convict in fur coat (6) 20    Sore feeling follows a dry official (7) 21    Game start for cavalier tough guy (6) 22    Notice vicar coming back with bishop drunkenly?

Eight unclued solutions, including a pair, are of a kind. Across 11    Most excellent expert admitting: ‘Everyone can be beaten!’ (9) 12    Left centre of Kyoto for coastal city (5) 13    Game playing isn’t tenable (5,6) 14    My elderly grandma always danced the leads (4) 18    Dish of noodles King and I tucked into (7) 19    Recalled old letter about a minute charm (7) 23    Rowing over a piece of jewellery (6) 24    Dramatic hurricane masks sound of birds (5) 27    Turned up old brooch (5) 29    Famous sisters of Eleanor, possibly having lots of tea?

Five pairs of unclued lights are similarly linked. Across 12    Finally, favourite coastal town gets special treatment (3,6) 13    Seafront apartment housing readily available (2,3) 15    Conductor is in Costa in confusion (9) 16    Get comfortable in finest Levis! (6) 20    Shell-like gold relic smashed (7) 21    Could be made in reverse? (6) 22    Passionate time following Forest (6) 26    Openings of the best satirical poetry in little volume (4) 27    Pull to the left in Winnebago (3) 29    One of these?

Unclued lights feature in the same entry in Brewer. Across 1    Worked at jobs making decorations for shirts (6) 7    Inkpad destroyed in crime (6) 12    I bite idly, puzzled whether or not something could be food (9) 13    Decorative form returns in piccolo voluntary (5) 16    Gauge very low returns internally (6) 20    Tax collectors dig over unfenced allotment (7) 21    Excess of bright lipstick, on reflection (6) 22    Taxes received for American banks (6) 26    Announced food measure (4) 29    Go and act!

The unclued lights have an award-winning feature in common.

The unclued lights are of a kind. Across 12    Sun ruined helter-skelter without cover (9) 13    Lizard found in Wagamama! (5) 15    Screen role I transformed into (9) 16    Rabbit’s discovered in delay at terminus (6) 20    Quietly thatched house and made watertight (7) 21    Oddly, his leg is pulled by Cupid! (6) 22    Location of small storm (6) 26    In with ugly bruiser (4) 27    Recalled child’s little digits (3) 28    Are offstage?

The unclued lights are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. Across 7 Recurring tea dance (3-3) 12    Following sound of artillery, I curtail call to official (9) 13    Steer clear of a hole (5) 15    Make the most of session in recruitment event (4,5) 16    Effect of high dose (6) 20    One stood up and pointed (7) 21    Support that man, ’e’s a bit of a giggle (3-3)  22   Catch chickens circling round yours truly (6) 24    Returning to minister’s house, discovered cat hiding in furniture (8) 26    Ghanaian capital’s a bit overpriced, IMHO!

Four unclued lights are of a kind and the remaining four can be arranged to indicate what unites them.

Four pairs of unclued lights are all similarly linked.                 Across 5               Mark sample of class essays (6) 9               I’m beginning to like hot chap’s twinkling of an eye (10) 14            Beginning of oxidisation on iron container?