2558: Blonde, 78

Unclued lights can be grouped into three triplets, each associated in a different sense with a keyword to be discovered, of which the title suggests a topical example

Across

7 Assembly line described by writer I don’t know (6)

12 Smaller flower is rarity, but gets propagated (9)

13 Dido laughed, admitting mistaken views (5)

15 Magic as hospital overcomes shortage (9, two words)

16 Buttress, stone, penetrated by Edmund (6)

20 Celebrate about weed doing farrier’s work (7)

21 Do a Chinese for Mormon perhaps (6)

24 Loose women once simpered stupidly (8)

26 One terrible noise echoing from nests (4)

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Britain is living beyond its means

27 One can’t write in this good book (3)

29 One studying Rabbit, Run (4)

32 With restraint, watched massacre filmed (8)

34 Backward American state becomes more sophisticated (6)

35 Salt he sprinkled around meat loaf (6)

37 On high tower, note foreign character (7)

39 Available for work, only half attracting tax (6, two words)

42 What I balanced precariously on head? (9, two words)

45 Tower, we hear, is a beautiful sight (6)

46 Male Scot’s purpose shows courage (6)

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