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Filled the grid, got the chaps, think I've got the work, found a big brick wall. The lyrics are decidedly weird (not my specialist subject, these guys, alas) and can see nothing remotely like a glimmer of light. Is the work in question one in which a tasty dish is strangely clad?

Hm, I don't think that is the right work. "All you need" is in the last 9 extra letters.

Curious that "Revolution 9" is equally cryptically arrivable-at. So no underpants and Welsh rarebit. Pity.

The preamble does state that what's cryptically represented is the introduction to the song and not the song title.

I'm only about a third of the way through this but think I may have gone wrong somewhere as, so far, I've found 5 extra words in the downs but their middle letter is the same in each case, and at least 3 of them are in a row - can that be right?

Brendan, you are straying into theme territory- so don't panic, just carry on!

Ah understood, many thanks Malone:-)

Thanks to Check for a most enjoyable puzzle.

Needless to say, in addition to erasing the cells, I also got the bright red marker pens out so as to illustrate the thematic shape more vividly 😃

I agree that this was fun and well constructed. Thank you, Check. I confess that I spent a few minutes trying to find a way to construct an “O” by deleting cells before the bleedin’ obvious slapped me in the face.

A very pleasant puzzle which made me feel sixty years younger.