Seven unclued lights (all real words) are 36s minus one letter. A further 36 formed from the omitted letters will appear in the completed grid and must be shaded.
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1 Confederate creeshes wheels (8)
5 Poem (anonymous) involving ship in port (6)
9 Crooked creep with agent making profit (10)
16 Tinware company backed predator (6)
17 A new Troy with aged columns (5)
20 Bovine in old poem digs up underground stem (7)
24 Author noticed a probable 36 in Shakespeare (7)
25 Medical process still reducing sickness (5)
26 Some admit a layman translated Bible (5)
28 Language of goon pierced by short dagger (7)
31 Reformer from Zimbabwe...
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