Five of a kind (including two of two words) can be derived from the letters of 26/27, 40/41, 46/47, 3/34 and 10/39 (all real words). 32/12D suggests mispronounced praise of the theme. Elsewhere, ignore an accent.
Across
1 Soldiers drill in circle (5)
5 Knave less than chaste (3)
8 Rude Rastaman ignoring Mr T’s yoga pose (5)
12 Examiner Jeremiah shortened question (7)
13 Last old engineers preserving Troy (7)
14 Snakes go grey around central Assam (5)
16 Some clod I’m with? (6)
18 Fine Caledonian island they say (5)
19 Scot in a reel? (3)
22 Miserable Denis missing Italy yells for ever (9)
23 Pike reduced seabird’s fodder (7)
28 Poisonous plant – signal end for Victoria (5)
30 One’s pain crossing Oregon is bad (7)
35 Heartless odist greeting uxoricide (7)
37 The Saints’ Walcott, poet Christopher and Pusey? (9)
42 Respect Paduan town with short river (6)
43 Money Larissa lost leaving steamship (5)
44 Seed novel aunt broadcast (4,3)
45 May classy nut develop with mellow fruitfulness? (7)
48 One disease getting northern dramatist (5)
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