One of the clued lights below reveals the theme which Brewer confirms. One of the unclued lights is not paired as the others are. Two successively numbered unclued lights form one of the theme words.
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How I was punished for breaking the conspiracy of silence on grooming gangs
1 Become angry when deportees sadly lose pot (6, two words)
7 Veto in favour of offer (6)
13 Leading industrialist appears in nude, wandering in Italian city (5)
15 Posts set in position beside ploughs (9)
16 German novelist is skilled in situ, regularly (6)
20 Judge arrives, eating snack (7)
21 A-type Lotus just first at the top (6)
22 9, most of 10 and top of 11 in disorder (6)
24 Girl takes little boy back in— that’s saucy! (8)
26 Perform some chorus in Gerontius? (4)
27 An indefinitely large number of alcaics — not odd! (3)
35 She of the White Hands is playing lute (6)
39 Mormon back in Tibet, in a dream (6)
42 Revoked, when intoxicated in prison room.
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