The unclued lights (two of one word and the remainder consisting of two separate components) can be arranged into two similar sequences.
Across
7 Baroness without a right wandering Munro south of Tyndrum (3,3)
13 Some Tories sick of sending back immigrant (5)
15 Call up memories about nicer semi (9)
16 Join up tinsel, possibly (6)
20 Govern with restraint (7)
21 Hotels rebuilt on Himalayan peak (6)
22 Backed prophet holding chapters of preliminary military surveys (6)
26 Variables restricting one sleeping (4)
27 Fresh air and water (3)
28 Writer of short stories ignores a runner (3)
29 Dried up burn, you say (4)
32 Critical safety parameter shown by Native American and attendant (8)
34 Cut 50% almost of a hot Turkish sweetmeat (6)
35 Air-gun shot Magyar (6)
37 Post from central Cairo and around Lima (7)
39 Got man round after the weekend in Wiesbaden (6)
42 I kid you not! (4,5)
43 Managed, say, to get back in bounds (5)
45 Individual around cypress, say, ablaze (2,4)
46 Excited Jordanian ran away to border (6)
Down
1 Rolling in part of Sunderland (4)
2 Pests losing one’s shades in Paris (7)
3 Initially, one employs it looking in France (4)
4 CGS unit once appearing in dictionary (7)
5 One-time prince wandering around Italian region (8)
6 Forty bundles of hay outside of Kingussie is almost sufficient (6)
9 Overlarge compilers have time for species of sturgeon (8)
17 I turn red outside – not like this! (6)
18 Volcanic dust ruined no palazzo (9)
23 Leave old cigarette on property (6)
30 Siberian retired graduate’s entry finally included in dictionary (7)
31 Minor prophet having endless pain in African country (7)
33 Georgia with earth yielding red diesel (3,3)
36 Follows Sven managerially in Chicago, randomly (5)
38 Addict’s trick cycling (4)
40 Army cook snubs fine foreign food (4)
41 Don’t stop, you fool! (4)
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