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oh, and dizoz: I don't know if some of the themed answers are international: I've only found English ones so far. Don't know if that will help. Or if you've given up. I'm about to.

Letters in place for 4D and 19D are correct livs

12a defn - hearty

Thanks. Got 12A - had it but rejected it.

Meh. If I don't know these people there's not much point in carrying on. I'll wait for next month!

Oh. I think I just got the theme(s) and the unclued things. I still don't care. Off to watch HIGNFY extended version - much more fun!

Sounds as if you've found the sub-theme of three(English)...the other five aren't English.

hi livs et al,
I slept on this problem. read inputs. not much wiser. got 28a, "NOTED" but noted what? names? poets? got 13 Nightingale. any hints???????

@dizoz

From your username I assume you are in Australia - are you familiar with UK bank notes?

3 answers here have all been depicted on the back of UK £10 notes - (what you could call, say, noted "tenners".) All were British.

The 5 answers could be called the same, say(!), and are not British.

hi rh142, ta for info.
yes. ex-scot in oz (59 yrs). haven't seen a tenner since the fifties. is "tenor" the 12d homophone?

You've got it.
4 of the 5 are very famous - the other was not familiar to me but I looked up a list of them and there he was!