Within seven unclued lights are spelled out the ingredients of the eighth, which solvers must shade. The unclued lights are suggested by surplus words in eight clues.
Across
1 Old men with tastes in small cakes (8)
9 Son in new trial practising beforehand (10)
14 Hogarth’s greatest painting? (3)
16 Cross composer snubbed poet (6)
17 Toodle-pip to old Jeeves? (5)
18 Fierce predator heard in pine forest (5)
22 Who might make you sturdier footwear? (7)
24 Dapper determinist holy man shily challenged (7)
25 Sheriff’s court ushers polled maple trees (5)
26 Some jurymen actually make law (5)
31 Poet’s pressure revealed by emotional tone that’s extreme (7)
33 Time of rest and quiet, sailor and near crazy mariner enter (7)
37 Burrower beginning to creep around cavity (5)
38 Antique gold coin twinkling hard by ancient city (5)
39 In Ontario almost all like Schoenberg’s music (6)
40 Bird in brief panic wings off (3)
42 Rod left in fury (6)
43 Take diadem from westward county big noise controls (8)
Across
2 With no sign of hesitation Mahler’s playing old instrument (5)
3 Climbing tree rodent meets oak bark (6)
4 Try easy solutions initially for instance (5)
6 Odd paragraph PR released showing Christ’s supposed sayings (7)
7 Unknown number cut by slack older singer (6)
8 What could be Scotch imbibing island? (4)
10 Flowers one grows (6)
11 Priestly ruler in France yesterday and Argentina in October (9)
13 Tailless fancy pigeon flew about deep gorge (8)
15 Play the avenger in vain endlessly (7)
21 Relaxed regimen includes classy light sweetmeat (8)
27 Currant bun to eat when ingesting peeled peach (7)
29 Partly wash large squared stone (6)
30 Man from Texas raised stots tall in shape (6)
32 Modern Greek married in buzzing Cairo (6)
34 I wouldn’t put up round paintings (5)
35 Colombia imports this Roman dyestuff (5)
36 Type of cord jacket the ultimate in fine fashion (4)
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A first prize of a £30 John Lewis voucher and two runners-up prizes of £20 vouchers for the first correct solutions opened on 7 September. Please scan or photograph entries and email them (including the crossword number in the subject field) to crosswords@spectator.co.uk, or post to: Crossword 2766, The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP.
Doc apologises to Fieldfare and solvers alike for his error in rerunning a crossword from a previous issue last week. The preamble should have read ‘Nine unclued lights form three triplets, each related in a different way to the tenth.’ There will not be any prizes for solving Crossword 2765.
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