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Reasonable grid-fill but no idea about the elements to be coloured....help please.

Don't put obstacles in your way....

Thanks ....but no wiser ... i must be thick today!....

Were you just as thick yesterday afternoon, around 5 pm?

Xwordfan, it's a theme that's been used before, always at this time of course(!).

Right ...i'm on course now ..thanks again!!

Xwordfan, thanks. I was trying to be cryptically helpful.

I have the first group of 5 similar items and what I think is
the ninth item. What is the 2nd group of three items ?

Thanks

Krauton - The second group refers to the first item on the Map (look top right) and the last two items on the Map (look bottom right).

Mapledurwell
I assume that the item "forever associated with the theme" started to be in 1973.
As for the three others (the first and last two on the MAP). I can see a 4-letter possibility often following "winning" in the bottom right of the grid but where are the other two items and what are they?