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Many thanks all of you. You are totally right. The problem was I only saw one instance of 10 in row 4 and missed row 5 but the Wikipedia entry makes it clear. I was also looking for the first definition of the 10 letter word from Chambers which clearly isn’t in the grid.

I can see three representations in the grid.

One of them is a ten letter word

The second is a mathematical expression 'in words'

The third is a mathematical expression in which the letters are interpreted as numbers. Strictly speaking there is an ambiguity which requires the use of parentheses to resolve, but I think mathematicians would agree on which interpretation to accept, on the basis that the alternative could be represented in another way.

So I appear to have 23 cells to highlight. Two of them are use twice.

I certainly don't see why the unclued answer 'contains the theme', although I would be highlighting its final letter.

And I cannot make a great deal of sense of either the corrections or initial letters of clues 'in normal order'. In a crossword, initial letters of two lights are given only one number. The clues are then listed in two groups - first the across clues and then the down clues. This does not give me anything very useful though there are bits and pieces which I expected to see.

Having spent a great deal of time on the jigsaw, much of which wasted since I had the long words wrongly placed, I am now feeling a bit cheesed off at these final ambiguities.

Hi, Foinaven,

I don’t think we are required to highlight the unclued answer. The preamble says “solvers must highlight two other representations”. As already noted, this means highlighting 16 cells.

My last post was very dim. I had read 'unclued answer' as 'answer to starred clue not in Chambers' and I was wondering what that had to do with the theme. Apologies.

Finally finished and I am sure I would have given up if it had not been for planks post #79. Thanks to everyone else who has contributed. Hopefully there are now a lot more people over the line with the help given here in what has been the hardest puzzle for some time.

Thanks for help.I am stuck on grand style clue and gunshot wound clue. I am not a robot.

Hi, Macky,

“Grand style, superior in quality”: definition is last three words, misprint in second word.

“Court of Session’s expert witness mostly coming in second for gunshot wound”: definition is first four words, with first three words being a hint for a Scottish word that can mean “expert”. Misprint in last word. “Second for gunshot” implies U (second letter), and corrected last word has a one-letter contraction. These two letters contain what’s indicated by “mostly witness”.

Grand style becomes grand stale. Def. is superior in quality - think medals. I know the answer to gunshot wound but can't parse the wordplay. Def. is Court of Sessions (as in Scottish) expert.

Thanks Wintonian - I can now parse gunshot wound!

Thank you.I am not a robot.