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I had the same process, counted 26 then saw the 37th lurking.

Assume the positioning of the items is appropriate, at the part of the grid that correspends to their physical/geographic location

Oh, and thanks robt (Henri) for looking in, I really enjoyed this!

Stopped writing yesterday.
Full grid; seven misprints, that give me a year from the last century (?); and can’t take my eyes off the eight letter word, crossing four answers in column three.
Struggling with the “letter pair definitions” and two locations.
Hmm !

DFG2, your 8-letter word is significant, but you'll need the theme for context! I didn't bother with the four (not two!)locations until afterwards - they'd have meant nothing even if I'd spotthem them,which I didn't.
The letter pairs, definitions really did help - and as said earlier, those a the start of the clues proved quite revealing.

Think of the letter pairs bit as a mini-clue - 'Malone on vacation' would give ME. and 'So twisted' would give OS. Just examples, not in this puzzle!