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chrise
It's one of those where I have an issue with the enumeration not taking account of an apostrophe.

Thanks all. The Carmen hint allowed me to finish, but I can't say I enjoyed it. Paul isn't one of my favourite compilers. I had heard of 2 of the thematic ones.

Hi ChrisE - sorry I didn't get back to you with a hint for 1A but glad you managed to finish. I had only heard of two of the thematic answers as well!

Parsing help.

22. When foaled, discard horse (6)

The answer is a word for horse but how do foaled and discard work?

Thanks.

Break the word in half.

When foaled = date of birth = D.O.B.

Thanks rossim.
And thanks gasmanjack for clarifying further.

I thought this was a little unfair in that the solutions to the themed clues were all in a foreign language. Yes, I know that that's what their names are and I know that it's my own ignorance of the subject matter. But, at the end of the day, they are solutions to crossword clues and I expect to be able to work my way through the parsing of a clue and see a (vaguely) recognisable word or phrase start to appear - that wasn't the case today. Apart from 12/22, I Googled to find a name that fitted the enumeration and then checked the parsing. Not very satisfactory really.

I'm entirely with you on that, simon.

I also have a problem with apostrophes and accents.
I can't be bothered to finish it.