Not The Saturday Prize Puzzle

Xtra 902 - Freedom Pass by Enigmatist
Of fourteen symmetrically placed answers, ten (which may be arranged as five pairs) must be thematically shortened to fit the grid. Letter-counts refer to grid entries. One answer is two words.
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  •  1  Number 12 in force advanced by Yard (5)

  •  5  21 Club (5)

  •  9  Song rendered in turn by one (4)

  • 11 Honours only even? That's dreary for the Scots (5)

  • 12 It's growing trouble at the OK Corral, did Spooner say? (3)

  • 13 I have a November feast: spread that's rare sandwiches also (4)

  • 14 Visibly lecherous on Emerald Isle breaks (4)

  • 16 Where you'd find Burton barring Eliot (5)

  • 18 Solitary cavalier? (5)

  • 21 Joiner greeting topless bird seen devouring fish round back (5)

  • 23 Protection in the garden over half of God's week's work! (5)

  • 27 Very brief love admitted by cold governor (4)

  • 28 Expanding used to be Yankee's characteristic behaviour (4)

  • 30 Nuts joining athletic club diving into a little pool (3)

  • 31 Representation for one friend, turning back (5)

  • 32 What provides help for you, psychologically? The old drinking bout (4)

  • 33 To Romeo, Juliet gets nothing right (5)

  • 34 Holiday departure (5)

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  •  1  Fumbling fingers are finally failing to open (4)

  •  2  Detailed penalties imposed by judges of language (6)

  •  3  A bit of rest advised (3)

  •  4  Discovered guy in attempt to put up tent (4)

  •  5  Ruddy-faced woman missing start of long haul (5)

  •  6  Learning name (Sofia Scicolone, initially) (5)

  •  7  After explosion, coal-miner's severed arm requiring disinfectant (6)

  •  8  Means to keep beer base, in thousands of grams (4)

  • 10 News withheld from hired killers, sent some mail (3)

  • 15 United, beginning to languish, fail to perform somersaults in September (6)

  • 17 Program within program, uncovering concert spirit (6)

  • 19 Timeless spirit uplifted leader of enduring attack (5)

  • 20 Tugboat's high-point? (5)

  • 22 Top chap for it! (4)

  • 24 One providing wind-up makes Brown BROWN? (3)

  • 25 Monarch, perhaps, advanced across railway line (4)

  • 26 Nasty eye infection? (4)

  • 29 Petition for children one's initially disowned (3)

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