Crossword

Six unclued lights, the sixth spelt in its original way, are members of a team proclaimed dramatically at a venue given by the remaining pair. The proclaimer and team leader appears diagonally in the completed grid and must be shaded. Elsewhere, ignore an accent. Across 1    Minister and unknown independent in conflict (5) 9    Eyelid injured fixing jerk’s wheel (10, two words) 11    God cardinal had cheered (5) 14    Treacherous Scots not wearing blue (5) 15    Fine leapers must clear tops of houses (5) 16    Stick in this place east of Hoosier State (6) 21    Being from Iceland with mobile home?

Each of twelve clues contains a misprinted letter in the definition part. Corrections of misprints spell a four-word phrase forming an indication of the unclued lights in each of four columns in the grid. Ignore an accent in one unclued light.

The unclued Across lights are of one linguistic kind and the unclued Down lights are of another, all of which solvers must figure out.   Across   1    Busy person squeezing scab on carpet (6) 7    Cilla’s out gathering what Novello suggested (6) 12    Ends of the line abolished at privatisation? (9) 13    Come down from window (5) 15    Club official, more confident following adjustment of rate (9) 16    Persistent seabird seen during mid-week (6) 20    Threatening youths broadcast ‘Which of you gets the chop?

Six unclued lights are examples of ‘3/4/18’ (four words in total, ignore an apostrophe), a quotation (in ODQ) whose author’s surname (7) will appear diagonally in the grid and must be shaded. Elsewhere, ignore an accent.

One clue lacks a definition part; its answer is a film title. One unclued light (three words) is the title of a song in the film, and one unclued light (two words) is the name of its singer. The first word of the song’s title defines three unclued lights, and its third word defines three unclued lights. Ignore an accent in one unclued light.

The unclued lights (one of two words) can be preceded by the same word which is hidden in the completed grid. Solvers must highlight this word appropriately. All resulting phrases are verifiable in Brewer. Elsewhere, ignore one accent. Across   1    Ought to be quiet when dreadfully loud (6) 7    Elysian areas of knowledge? (6) 12    Board for one in mental hospital? (9) 15    Governor’s gun brought back by a hill (9) 16    War god with worker bully (6) 20    Porridge making good man throw up (7) 21    Could be guaranteed this is treeless country?

Clues are listed in alphabetical order of their solutions. An 11-word quotation runs around the perimeter from the top left-hand corner. Four thematic clued answers need highlighting, as does a thematic name (7) in the completed grid.   Not looking well, with a scar and spasm?

An excerpt from a poem (-eleven words, one hyphened, in ODQ) reads clockwise in the perimeter from the top left corner. Each of four clues contains a superfluous word; these words combine to give the poet’s name. The poem’s title, which is concealed in the grid and must be highlighted, indicates the action required to create each of three unclued lights, and 18 plus 24. All these lights are words in Chambers; one is doubly hyphened. Letters in corner squares and those adjacent to them could give POWER I HEAT UP.   Across   10    Struggles, holding weak opinions (5) 12    Theory of earth’s formation, terribly foggy one, lacking force (7) 14    Crazy?

The unclued lights (three of two words), individually or paired, are of a kind, with 1 Down as a plural. Two of these unclued lights do double duty to reach the number indicated in the title. Ignore one apostrophe and, elsewhere, an acute accent. Chambers does not confirm 25A.   Across   1    What a professional soldier might expect to earn?

Four unclued lights (eight words in all) form a phrase describing an activity.

Answers to clues in italics must become 15 (hyphened) to create grid entries. Definitions of these entries are supplied by unclued lights, one of which consists of two words. Elsewhere ignore two accents.   Across   1    Convince court without question, wearing dark blue (8) 11    Endless praise in resort prepared for sharks (12) 14    Melodies soprano practises (7) 17    Quarrels providing force in manuscript (5) 18    Bullfighter rushed right round (6) 22    Passage about heartless prison camp in speech (8) 23    Horse we trained in whatever place?

One ‘unclued’ light, as the title suggests, can be paired (on one occasion twice) with each of the other unclued lights, (one of two words), all verifiable in Brewer. Alphabetical order takes priority in the unclued solution at 36A.

11/22, 36/1D, 48/2, 9/30 and 17/46 combine to form anagrams of the titles of five works (four of two words, one of three) by a writer whose name will appear diagonally in the grid and must be shaded.   Across   1    Moll producing sauce or gravy (5) 6    Jolly sister shampooing (7) 12    Small box of rolled gold (4) 14    Mythical beast in the old tree (4) 15    Wild time in Sunshine State (5) 18    One yearning aloud for past master (4) 19    College cat quivering like a jellyfish?

In eight clues, cryptic indications omit reference to parts of answers; these parts must be highlighted, to reveal the title (two words) of a track on 1D (two words) by the 12 (two words). The title in question defines the other unclued lights.

The unclued lights (one of two words, and one of three) when preceded by the same word (which has to be discovered) reveal words (in one case, a non-word which is almost a foot) or phrases all of which are listed in Brewer, with some also listed in Chambers. Ignore all hyphens.   Across 7    Losing core of drive, rant and go off line (6) 11    Not starting continental deer, say, or veal dish (10) 13    Sudden increases of bitterns’ calls (5) 14    Employing you, I hear, even in espionage (5) 15    Sign away big business arrangement — there are the overheads!

The transformation is 10A (three words), which suggests the other unclued lights, including one of two words and one hyphened.

In the clues, the 9 stars represent omitted words (one of which is a dialect variant of another). Those 9 words, along with 12 others which form a set, must be used to complete the 11 unclued entries, which include four two-word phrases and four hyphened words, and are all in Chambers.   Across   1    Government taken in by inhabitants — more than one lied (5) 4    Brook disappointment eventually after Malteser’s crunched (9) 11    Primate, somersaulting, ’ad something to stand on? (6) 12    Private * and expert pilot (7) 14    Prop to walk stiffly (5) 15    Amazon leaves a sign of autumn?

The unclued lights (one of two words), individually or as three pairs, are of a kind.   Across   9    Aussie’s error with fine paintbrush. Correct! (10, hyphened) 11    Ten-nil reverse.

Unclued lights (including one of two words and three pairs, 37 doing double duty) are characters in a play. A representation (fourteen letters) of its title appears in the completed grid and must be shaded.   Across   12    Short of money Rameau composed airs (5) 13    Understanding uni, long historic, admitting pupil teacher (6) 14    Conically roofed edifice on Australian street beside pub (9, two words) 17    Let rip!

Each of eleven clues contains a misprinted letter in the definition part. Corrections of misprints spell the source (three words) of a message reported by a 23 whose surname is an unclued light. The message in question (eighteen words, in ODQ) occupies the perimeter – reading clockwise from the top left corner – and two unclued lights.