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I also have 19, 5, 14, 11. Although the crosses are in the poem they are not "identified by corrections to misprints" so surely not to be highlighted? Perhaps they are just in the grid to point us in the direction of the other theme items?

poppies in red, stalk and stem in green? f f red?

I agree that any ambiguity as to what to highlight is resolved by the corrected letters- and that does leave 49 cells. (THough we could also have had TORCH and both types of gun in full. I can't remember who found/spotted only two crosses, but in case you haven't spotted the third yet, they are TAU, CROSS and ROOD. (Though one might mischievously suggest "ireful" and "stern" too!)

But I am still left with a question:

What on earth is 21d? I mean, it has to be SUMY, doesn't it? But what IS that? I'm presuming an E for the I of "tinder", so looking perhaps for a currency - bit finding nothing.

21. It's in Chambers, under Sum.(Standard monetary unit of Uzbekistan)

I knew there were three crosses, but needed only two (for my letter count) and only two actually go into the... scene.

Why are people obsessed by the crosses? We're not asked to highlight them. There is no ambiguity about that. If you need *any* of them for your letter count, then you're missing something else.

Saw solution today. As we suspected the crosses weren't highlighted and machine gun was. Not that it made any difference as I didn't win the fizz!