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You're right with DEBATABLE. 16d has the first 6 letters reversed as a thematic dentry.

...entry, sorry (the fairly obvious 3 letter synonym for 'greatly' should help you get started, I hadn't come across the word before).

Thank you very much drxx. I thought that was the end of it but frustratingly I still have not completed 25ac - one letter missing!. Clue is 'Defeat battalion bottling opportunity to go in'(5). I have ?tbat, obviously a themed entry, but what?

bigf, it's a cricketing term (hyphened) and it's in the clue.

...sorry, baseball - not cricket.

Thank you very much drxx. So it was not thematic. I had never heard of it but now I can go back to Inquisitor.