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Vertical and horizontal, bananabean.

Do the 30 cells to be highlighted comprise 6 non-overlapping words?

NO

Touching but not overlapping (and not as many as 6).

Wow. So get (back) is not wanted?

No.

I have 4 very likely words of lengths 6, 6, 4, and 4 but if there are less than 6 words and these 4 are correct then I need a 10-letter string of cells and that looks impossible. Woe is me.

Still stuck with 8 cells to go. Just picked up the paper and found we’ve finally been picked out of the hat after all these years!

Your two sixes could be right, bananabean.

...maybe go back and read up a little on the theme?