My last one, and I've got nowhere.
1 D. Troubled, directing point back behind extra covers (5) I?de?
NB. For thematic purposes, there may be two extra words, not necessarily adjacent.
I only managed to link 9 of them. I can't make Keith, Jamie or Nigella (although there's a possibility of John for that - but then I'm stuck for the other John in column 9). Any ideas for those?
And I've actually got 4 sets of extra pairs to play with - 'mind+set', 'ragged lady', 'yell+out' (I think this might not be a true pair) and 'Queeney's+husband' (could that be Jamie?)
Gary is at the end of 3dn, although the clue works with or without the extras.
There are far too many liberties taken in this puzzle for my liking (I can see at least 8 words that could be dropped from the 'straight' clues).
PM, well done on tracking down the names, how they're arrived at. I don't know about there being other words (that could be dropped), I wasn't thorough enough to notice. I did see the spelling mistake in the title.
Thanks again Neveracrossword, I missed the typo.
Looks like the setter didn't include any ambiguities to make the extra effort worthwhile - I think your way was the right way to tackle this one.
By the way, I can also get John, Keith and Gary from 'Murray+Walker' (the way I'm using it) and I haven't even tried the other names.
I must be missing something more decisive.