Spectator 2653 Order! Order!

[johnpiper]

Havig a few problems working out the theme and the unclued lights to be honest. Only got a few clued clues to go

11A Addresses person arrested by western marine (6)

Only have ??o???

1D Headgear promotion covered by amount traded (7)

i have S????ES

could it be Sadales?

[Neveracrossword]

Thanks, Fleshpots - I couldn't come up with anything subtle! 

[teacher1]

Yippee !  Finished ..... off to bed now. lol

[FleshpotsOfDevon]

Is 40a an anagram of a word meaning "long narrative poem,impressive, large scale?" 

[FleshpotsOfDevon]

Scratch that, she's in the can. Phew...I made a real meal of that bad boy! It all became 42a eventually but it took some fiddling. 

[johnpiper]

I must be being obtuse here....i understand the ordering of the letters follow a system but do you then have to use the letters  to create another word? Take 4 down the missing unchecked letter the fourth must be f,g,h,i,j or k?

how do you decide?

[Neveracrossword]

Johnpiper, you have to pick the letters so that they form a thematic word, part of a phrase... I think the very first answer on this thread gave a huge hint to that word, and to what was going on, was to be done.

PS Some of the (possible ) letters you gave aren't in the phrase, list, mentioned in the preamble.

[johnpiper]

Thanks 

i have it now. Finally.

tricky puzzle this week

 

[Maxxer]

A lovely puzzle from Cheesecracker this week. I had to work a bit to establish the last few 'unclueds' but it was very satisfying to have completed the puzzle in under an hour

[Maxxer]

The preamble usually instructs solvers to 'ignore an apostrophe' but presumably those was obvious from the context