Unclued lights are three sets of three words of a kind, along with a name which connects them all (two words). Something that this name should possess (5), which is also a thematic item, must be highlighted in the completed grid.
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1 Always bored by job, like rebellion (8)
8 Dancing girls wanting a relief (4)
12 Follow it to leave bathroom (5)
14 Going furtively out of east, moving sinuously (7)
16 A lot of Italian beer for Eva? (5)
17 Biblical land about to get bread (6)
21 Image about one mount joining several states (9, hyphened)
24 Tower’s inhabitants party with partners (6)
25 Indianan keen to embrace necessity (6)
26 At sea, use gill or scales (7)
27 Friar’s faithful daughter not a queen (9)
32 Piggy uncovered phenol obtained from lichen (5)
33 Seething with onset of awful skin blemish (5)
36 Problem children (5)
37 Little remnant of rum? Turn up little drink (12, two hyphens)
38 Cad heard somewhere in church (4)
39 Fictional detective’s forgetting line in platforms (8)
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