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Hi Peter- I didn't mean that it had a thematic word missing from the wordplay but rather that Pit is a part of the body and it is part of the solution

The preamble says that all solutions are wholly or in part thematic.

Yes that's the vessel peterm

You must be right about 18dn dja, but I don't think much of it. I'm also dubious about the definition of 17ac.

Agreed on 29a djawhufc...the plural worries me a bit, but I don't see another option.

18d I have defn as "lapidary words", record and hit (smashed) around a p.

Yes that is a weak one (17a)

I can't see any other answer though

Ell being the cloth measure leaves no other thematic option as far as I can see

I thought 17ac ok. Crop being a bird's stomach.

I thought the crop was part of a bird's throat, but I now see it can also be the stomach.

I can't see the theme in 26ac(the first answer I got). What am I missing.

I have a plural for 8dn but we don't have two of those do we?

Sorry, forget that, the solution is the plural not the theme