This Gridless Crossword is a taxing puzzle designed to test all of your deductive skills. Your ultimate goal is to discover the puzzle’s answerline which is a vertical word or phrase reading down through the answers. It reveals the puzzle’s neat but elusive theme. But be warned: your deductive skills will be greatly tested before the penny finally drops!

Deduction

1. A personal hygiene problem leads to a medical graduate failure of a spectacular kind. (4)
2. Establishes what a person does in an ironworks. (6)
3. Harry Potter’s is feeble against principal Dumbledore’s. (4)
4. Cut tinea short with a prong. (4)
5. Distribute evenly or rainy days become lacking in propriety. (5)
6. Build truck frame and another luxury vehicle. (5)
7. Seafood setting is squalid, drives nearly all out. (5)
8. Sounds like you are in one tangle of nerves. (5-)
9. Basil and pine-nuts and parmesan cheese and some grapes too. (5)
10. Act like a criminal — get a flashing light! (6)
11. Remove it from trivial competition. (5)
12. About face, head right, head north, reach country. (6)
13. Car gate barriers test dummy helmets. (5)
14. Bridgework makes tonsil very streaked with grey. (7)
15. Big __ in Little China, or The __ with Harry. (7)
16. Canines, woodsmen, and flying machines. (8)
17. Take possession of an acclaimed centre. (5)
18. The Scottish monster goes back in at compliance. (6)
19. It all started when the tailless Bengal got upset. (5)

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