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Agree with your repetitions Buddy. I now have 41 total theme references so it must be that one of the full answers, possibly 6 or 61, wasn’t intended.

Hello again

I'm back with some still to get and many more theme words to identify. I can't find 6a as theme word in my list of such words. I use the Chambers Complete Crossword Companion.

Please can I have a hint for 33 ac. I have ??V?N???L?. Is it a foreign word or a person? Needless to say, I haven't got 25d or 35d to help. Oops, I may have just got 35d, though I can't fully parse it.

Hi Roof

33a Not a word I knew. But the v and the n are part of an obvious theme word. Only just over an hour or so from us. Means a religious type person.

I'm taking the whole BH to finish this. Loads of answers I haven't parsed yet.

Roof - I had to Google 6a once I’d tentatively got it from the parsing. I found that it is indeed a theme word (but Googling didn’t reveal the other definition, discussed above). I only knew the word as a capital city (strangely NOT clued).

there are several of the theme word in 33 - the word actually means the same as the theme ... the full 33 was the original book-burner, hanged in 1498 and then himself burned - famous picture in the Uffizi.

Hi Prospero

Got him. I'd never heard of him, but my husband had and belittled my GK. But I can't parse it and can't see a second theme word.

Now I just need to parse 35d and solve 25d. What is the definition for 25d?

My daughter was meant to be visiting today, but has cried off with a cold, thus allowing me to carry on. I've still got 14d, 25d, 53d, 55d and 61ac to get. I must count up my theme words. I've taken to listing them!

The definition for 25d is the first word of the clue.

hi roof - 35 - the theme word is letters 2-5. 35 - outside letters of first 2 words. 25 - def surrounds, tailless deer letters 1,5 and 6

33 after the theme word, one letter ‘has’ then ‘A’ then a 5 letter word for “a roll of sheep’s wool” minus the last letter. If you’re like me you won’t have heard of it!

sorry - meant 33 but jono has explained the tortuous parsing ...