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Thanks will37,
I'm no further forward - I can't see a clue from 17d to 25d , where the last letter could change to what's needed for the instruction.

I have been doing the crossword since the days when it was in the Listener and religiously every Saturday in the Times but it's purely for pleasure and when I know I can't finish it I get on with my life :)

Cheers.

Raggedy - it’s the last word of 17d

Yes, I thought this was the only word that could take the change of letter at the start or the middle but since paper meets the clue I didn't go further. So plodding on.
Thanks

This was fun, and much more reasonably solvable compared to (for me) the last couple of weeks! I'm unsure about one final thing--the preamble notes that the theme is "revealed", which I eventually found after a lot of false starts. I've followed the instruction accordingly, but I don't see that it specifies doing anything to the revealed thematic phrase itself--am I correct that this phrase exists only for the benefit of the solver, and is not further embellished in the grid?

That was fun!

Crowdedmorning - yes, I think you’re right

Raggedy - I don’t think paper does fit the clue…

I've solved all the clues except 32 and 45A,17 and 33D. I have 20 misprints and 10 clashes. As there are clearly several clashes in these last few answers it's hard to get a handle on them. The corrections give me three apparently unrelated words, three more letters, and what looks like the name of an erstwhile PM - but that would require a misprinted A in the clue for 33D and I can't see where that would appear.

pebble, 17d is a double definition once the final word is fixed, and both definitions are a bit edgy, especially the fixed one, which I think is a bit mean. It has one clash, as does 32a which is a really obscure example of the last three words, the first two being wordplay as simple synonyms (3,2).

I hope someone else can help with 33d and 45a, as I’d appreciate a nudge there myself…!

Actually, when I look at those other two clues again, light dawned :-) 45a is defined by the first word that needs fixing, and it’s a two-letter sailor inside a biology term I did not previously know. 33d is also defined by the first word that needs fixing, and the next two words give an abbreviation that needs upending while the last three supply the last two letters.

btw, I found this endgame very neat, and although the thematic material wasn’t known to me a quick google provided everything I needed. I couldn’t resist getting my crayons out for an even more colourful grid than they actually ask for, cos why not!