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symmetry ..possibly ....if 7a is 8 letters then the last across would also be 8 letters?
Similarly if 2d were 7 letters then the answer at the bottom of the 5d column would also be 7 letters....
Hope I'm on the right lines here....

kirky,
Yes, that is right

Symmetry.
Difficult to spell this out without giving too much away. What it means is that if you rotate the grid by 180 degrees there is a feature of the entries in the new positions that is the same as the original. However, you need to work out what that feature is. Hope that makes sense.

I’m stumped by not seeing how this adds up. Do we enter partial answers?

Castafiore
Everyone has worked out that the number of letters in the solutions exceeds the number of spaces in the grid, of course. Question is: how can that be accommodated?

OK, will take it from there.

All very clever....gets my approval!

congratulations, Hamish, on another ingenious puzzle - the symmetry is greatly to be admired!

Great stuff. Thanks Soup

Good stuff. All done and dusted. And I can even parse every clue - which makes a change.