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SEVEN is the most obvious, jono! It's clued in 26a.
I don't see NINE.

Seven does appear in 26a, but 26 and 27 are required for Nine

So that is perhaps the point, ‘seven’ does appear but it is the only one that isn’t “divided” (sorry for all the posts will stop now)

But I've got one, four, five and seven as all being in one category, and two, three, six, eight and nine as being in the other category. I can't see the 'single exception'.

The e in five is the e in 16d and the f in four is the f in 1a

I can’t see two. Where is it? May be that is the exemption.

And the o in one comes from 21a

Two is in row 4

Thanks, Jono. So we have to take a letter from 21a to supplement those in 22a. I can see the logic in that - it does give 26a as an exception. Although it's a bit of a waste of the letters that are already in 1d, 4a and 22a.

Castafiore, I agree, but imagine how hard this was to set!