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Anyone got any ideas on the theme of the 8 / 9 unclued??

I'm lost, too!
But maybe someone can give me a hint on my last clued one, 43a: "Hacks some hair,keeping with it" (8 letters, 2 words) ---probably "The ???s?". "Hacks" is apparently the definition, nothing to do with the verb, and the second part is described as "grammatically non-verbal".Horse? Ghost? Slash? Irish? Swiss? HELP !!!

43. The Press, hacks/newspaper people. It's 'tress', hair, with 'hep'/with it, inside.

Thank you, malone: I couldn't parse it alone!
Still completely lost on the theme, despite one possible tip on the "other" forum...........................Anyone have the slightest idea?

need help on couple of the clued ones: 41a Airstreams blow round conserved wetlands (10, two words) R?M?A?SI??
25d Leg I put above head into a high state (8)
G??I?E?S
also have no idea yet as to the unclued ones. Tks.

A Ramsar site is conserved wetlands? (anagram)

Gaminess? (high state?)

thank you ab - did not know of that name for wetlands.25d of course gam (leg) i ness.

To Hankir: thank you for a very useful tip! I think I'm on the right track, but can't seem to find anything for 1 & 30a. For those I have respectively ?N???TU? and ?OAN. Is there a mistake there somewhere or do I just have to go on looking? Possibly one is the "fanciful" one, of course..................

Could they be popes? Anicetus and Joan?