A number of answers have a feature in common and are entered in an unusual manner implying a numerical value for a letter of the alphabet. Answer lengths refer to grid entries. Solvers must highlight the clued answer which contains only those letters in numerical order.
Across
1 Feel bad about others pinching nut (6)
6 Novel had merits after revision (6, 2 words)
11 Success securing one a small amount (4)
12 Admirable to imprison one after revolutionary escapade in Paris (8)
13 Sports students carrying issues back (10)
14 Imposing figure backed concealing name in having sex (4, 2 words)
16 Fails to float, losing first marine defence mechanisms (4)
17 Dispatch thin fabric having cut off a length (4)
18 Scots chill old water, not new (5)
21 French car: US film director frames it right (7)
22 British yobs wasting time with respect to hoodie? (7)
25 Announces death of injured parties (5)
26 Ditch flowing backwards? Not once (4)
27 Looks after leaderless regions (4)
29 Specialised college and eye hospital (4)
31 Fool snatching one quantity of wood, unaware of world’s ways (10)
32 Uneasily top in Greek, initially after tense year working at Greek grammar (8)
33 More than half of supporters like dry sherry? (4)
34 Stanzas of poem well represented by text messages? (6)
35 Summary of position from one probing bacterium (6)
Down
1 Try run to the top to see satellite (4)
2 Each of nuns is getting lost in gale? (8)
3 Local oozing drink in rear of snug (6)
4 Cuisinier’s rank, stale food – gourmet’s last to tuck in (4)
5 Rise in market for silk yarn (4)
6 Much of court session’s about phosphorus as medical substance (7)
7 American bringing in restraint – it is a more than bare-faced doctrine! (9)
8 Artillery supports swords (7)
9 Suggestion about Australian has you gaping (5)
10 This careful thinker, if ignoring sound measure, would be a prat! (8)
15 Scottish peers suppressing most of threat occasionally (9)
17 Unitarians, Baptists and Jesuits initially among religious groups in artist’s themes (8)
19 For Parisian, this time in French town suggests old money there (8)
20 Has longer court sessions? Titus Oates not worried, possibly (7)
21 Youngster is skewered by one stomach complaint (7)
23 Primary school charge: expensive but one’s laid out (6)
24 A school student picked up medicine (5)
28 Studies article disowned by college fellows (4)
29 End of first part of match upset entire match (4)
30 Band excitement the French ignored (4)
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