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To clarify the apparent disagreement, the solution does start with C.

it seems that many of you found a helplful site via google - I couldn't find anything useful with a list of terms relating to the theme which is why I am still in the dark about some of my answers eg 8,6d...though I am pretty sure I'm correct.

Yes. I can't paste the link without giving everything away, but try putting 17d and 2d in Google

9A. Working farm not occupied by Cornwall's first conservative peer (8). -A-C-O-T
This last one eludes me . It looks like Bancroft, farm/ croft and he was a peer but the parsing defeats me.

If you have the theme, that should give you this answer.

P.S. it's an anagram

Thanks, Chrise. My croft was obviously a red herring but I was accidentally right apart from the starting letter!

Yes, I was distracted by the croft too.

Can anyone help with 21a please? -É-R-P-I-É. Ex PM's 50% vituperation, 50% outrageously obstreperous. Necrophile, negrophile???