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Keep going for yellow until you get the same endings - some corners are involved in all of the thematic representations (all straight lines and diagonals - with one slightly tailing off). Grey is symmetrical when inverted.

It was the yellows that gave me the theme - after which it was a case of looking at the relevant Wiki page for other representations connected with the thematic name. It was a slow process and they fell in the order pink, blue, silver/grey. I'm still sore that the name doesn't appear in the grid in one piece, though!

This has been insanely difficult, well, for me anyway! Got the theme eventually, though blue and grey are still eluding me, but no one's answered jogamel's original question i don't think, that is, what do the numbers alongside each clue actually mean? E.g. the 1st 2 across answers are numbered 24 and 45, i can't see a pattern anywhere

The numbers are just where the answers are in
overall alphabetical order from clue 1 to clue 53

Aahh, of course! Thank you

thanks loge and drxx.

something of a d'oh moment when i looked at the yellows a bit harder and realised how to get them into the same part of speech.

Googling then yielded the others fairly easily - the silver/grey one especially is an impressive piece of construction.

i found the name (in two pieces), but dont understand the "framed by two clue answers of the same length" - or is it using a strange defn of "framed"?

Using 'framed' as a container indicator is OK, I think, but the process of searching through all of the answers looking for likely candidates would take much longer than a word-search within a particular clue (or the grid itself). Here we have to locate the two answers and imagine them side by side.
There are very few places in the grid where answers of the same length appear side by side (even allowing for the blank squares) but I think these should have been ruled out by the preamble.
To me, the puzzle seems to have been constructed to maximize any confusion - in the preamble, the clues, the jigsaw entry and the name element - on the plus side, there's a lot of good material in the grid construction (I think).

Hello all! I’ve just subscribed to Inews so I can do the Inquisitor, but neither in the app or desktop versions can I find my way to the Inquisitor itself. I’ve written Inews but they just said to search for the PDF page. Tried; no joy. Knocking my head against wall. So grateful for any navigational guidance.

I've cold solved three quarters and am loath to chuck in the towel and would appreciate hints for 18 & 45 (9 letter) and 2 (7 letter). I think 2 is A*****E

I do hope that bathmatters gets his problem resolved but I am clueless to help😒

You are right about 2, kenhiggs. You want a five letter word for to elbow, and replace the first letter with a two letter abbrev for radio presenter, to follow your A

45 is the cricketing term for on inside a six letter word for sally. Divination the definition

18 is tricky. Six letter word for in a row, backwards inside GT with an I in it. Answer an archaic term meaning most viscous. So the -est ending should help with the word for in a row