Cryptic Crossword 1-6

Special Instructions :

• The thematic clues in this puzzle have no special indicator to identify them.

• Answers to thematic clues are missing (i.e., no clue fodder provided for them in the clue) a word from a related set of 4 words that are not revealed.

• The missing word (one of the 4 as described above) appears “as is” (in the same order) anywhere in the answers of a thematic clue.

• Any one of these words can appear in multiple clues or in none at all. (i.e., there are more than 4 thematic clues and not all are thematic clues)

• If while solving a clue you realize that there isn’t sufficient fodder to parse it, you have probably run into a thematic clue.

• Cracking any thematic clue should reveal the missing thematic word and thus the rest of the words in the set of 4 (finding any of the four words can easily reveal all four)

• Once a thematic clue is solved, rest of the thematic clues would become significantly easier.

Across Clues:

9 Au courant sailor king? (7)

10 Apotheosize the versatile oil rag? (7)

11 Oddly saloon that is most dry (7)

12 Starlet with shtick about German soldier (7)

13 Remarkably large memento for everyone in a packet? (9)

15 Flamenco at Ixtapa featuring a raccoon? (5)

16 Swiss scratching their head about Swedish judgement in sciences (7)

19 Banister ran around heart of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia (7)

20 Minimum 50? (5)

21 Amazed at a quid pro quo wiping out Trump at first (9)

25 How to stop garrison? (7)

26 Revive the relaxation of Swedish monetary unit (7)

28 Unusual holy trinity of keys for the front door security feature (7)

29 Boy!! that's a brute!! (7)

Down Clues:

1 No one has slept soundly with worry on their mind or some sort of headache (6)

2 Fresh beeline detailed exactly (6)

3 Surge signal? (4)

4 Law has no bar on a bust (6)

5 Ornamental Eurasian shrub with an artful role (8)

6 Job's vault reportedly revealed the epilogue (10)

7 Drunken English artist's note on intelligentsia (8)

8 Without his queen (single) out junketing? (8)

14 Cooked, soft French duck? that's radical!! (10)

16 Slight laugher? (4,4)

17 Blue book rejecting periodic cruelty towards marine mammal (3,5)

18 Kinky guys can tie spouses with some panties (8)

22 Garb that's natural to retire in ease (6)

23 Model wearing posh fluffy scarfs on German subs (1-5)

24 Access say, for each guard (6)

27 Sterilize with pepper and not with razor to start with (4)