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Not that I can see, AndyP - the highlighting is just to show you've identified the thematic items.

Full grid apart from one cell in 34a..no word fits so I must have something wrong, can’t fully parse 35d maybe that’s it.

35 is a two-letter interjection for "be quiet" around usual abbreviation for old, then M(aster). all reversed, Lumen.

Hi Lumen,

34a - Definition is "treatment (of poet)" - 4 letter "demise" (once thematically treated) followed by "one in Scotland"

35d - Single letter "master" followed by a reversed/"looking up" 2 letter "silence" around "old" - definition is an old/"former" unit of conductance.

Thanks loge, got those now. I’m sure you can guess what I entered at 35d.
Just a couple of thematics to find and I’m done.
On to IQ, and have also splashed out on Spectator this week as they have special 50 year anniversary crossword.

Thanks brendan too!

I found this puzzle disappointingly straightforward. I downloaded it at 16:00 yesterday — thanks, tatters — and finished it at 23:40 despite also watching BOTH Euro quarter-finals, solving clues while the Italian players practised their Oscar-hopeful roles as "man with excruciating injury".

As has been mentioned, the only head-scratching required is the meaning of the phrase "...two thematic in name only". How are the other examples thematic other than by name?!

[ kitsune (#10), as the preamble states, the paired letters give the thematic "context" (in the meaning of its second definition in Chambers) — there are thematic examples which could be found in other geographical locations. ]

Like others, I found this at the easier end of the scale, but I'm still not sure of the connection between the T..... and the B... I....

I've looked in Chambers and, in the app version at least, there's no mention of the B.. I.. under the heading of the three letter word or the longer 8 letter one spelt by the corrected letters.

*Jif73 - The 2nd definition in my Chambers app is "A tap" or "A small, inferior, worthless or worn-out horse" - Am I looking at the wrong thing?

Brendan - my take is that they are the 8 “t…” that can be found in the B…I….., although strictly speaking two of them are a different genus (?) although have the word in their name

Got it, thanks CandleDave:)