13 words in the diagram are connected into a series by a certain theme, which has to be discovered by cumulative evidence. 10 of them are clued in italics. The other three, 1ac., 1 dn. and 3, are not clued, nor, among the other words, are 10 and 14; this is done to make a complete solution of the NW corner impossible - except by guesswork against very long odds - until the theme is discovered: its discovery will enable that corner to be filled in with no possible alternatives.
Across
5. Where you might see jazz fiend about nude (7)
11. A warmer for a butter fingers (4)
13. It's cooler around the hotel: let's have haddock (6)
15. One of the premises for Territorials in mucky surroundings? Quite the
reverse (5)
16. A bachelor needs company in the Bahamas (5)
18. Flow with the wind, to produce fish when contrary (7)
19. Bunting, yellow - to disembark - no start of disease (7)
20. Parrot's egurgitated a ring: it's on the floor (7)
26. It's an old practice to have a meal of fungi (7)
28. Where they used to sport among serene meadows (5)
29. It's right about five to wake up (5)
30. The old seer gives a tip about us (6)
32. Run away back out of the way, with knobs on (6)
33. One doctor's a prophet of inevitable doom (4)
34. Musical Parisienne to make mari go astray (4)
35. (two words) It's drab. Hush - what's outside may be gayer (7)
36. It's after time - ten: have some milky stuff (5)
Down
2. One bird that can't rise in Swedish port (4)
4. It's mean - it could so easily be nicest (6)
5. Mongrel with short name that's a wee bit Scottish (4)
6. Fix the amount of pay in R.A.F. (altered) (6)
7. First fruits: have the orange - you don't have to (5)
8. At deuce, after faults, ace comes in: endless (8)
9. Some signs of discontent in menial metal-workers (6)
11. Leather, or spoil with love, an unusual child (8)
12. To the point when fallow lacks carted crops (5)
15. Misappropriations need suit for redress (8)
17. Vital parts of engine incompetent taxi-men lose (8)
20. Endless stiff ascent. Inn? Not quite: try sledge (6)
21. Show sounds like what its sponsors eagerly await (5)
22. A ferment, unorganized - in a frenzy mentally (6)
23. I no longer tend hearths: heat is got otherwise (6)
24. It's the devil with scrap: it may be dutiable (6)
25. Stop fighting to rub ointment, perhaps, on tendon (6)
27. Indecently disrobe society girl, 'orrid witch (5)
30. A sloop makes an appeal to those who sail (4)
31. Name of girl, and of boy, seem very odd (4)
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