The twelve unclued lights comprise six symmetrically placed ‘split atoms’.
Across
5 Fruit devastation, not the first linked to difficulties (8)
10 Disregard Italian bloke, shunning introduction (6)
11 Adherent of government line disheartened only celebs (8)
12 Tea offered by curt Cromwellian? (4)
14 White metal club 37 holds (6)
18 Cunning son, extremely lazy (3)
20 Earlier, chilled poodle played around sports field? (9)
21 Imagined force in heroic exploit (7)
24 Area in county gripped by Sunak’s vision (8)
28 Prince overlooked checks, lacking means to absorb shock (8)
31 Domineer over male, pressure to go in front? (7)
35 One shortens naughty poem about sex first (9)
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