Crossword

Unclued lights (including three of two words and one of three words) are four people connected by the 11A and four partial representations of their works (minus definite articles); solvers must complete each representation by shading the whole light appropriately. Ignore two apostrophes.   Across 1 Correct direction by board with head for commercial quality (14) 10 Mythic Norseman’s yen to be at the seaside abroad (4) 14 Start storing goods in trunk (6) 16 China’s always imprisoning liberals (4) 17 Pitches concerning golfer (5) 20 Departed one island after return of community (8) 21 Blackmail’s no longer wrong?

The unclued lights are of a kind, verifiable in an entry in Brewer. Solvers are required to highlight an eight-letter headword from this entry in the completed grid. Elsewhere, ignore all accents.

18 (two words) will know that where ‘Q’ = ‘the number of’: Q1D x ([Q5A x Q37/35] – Q11/42) x Q22 = Q the 19. Elsewhere, ignore four accents.   Across 1 Glitches involving a thousand aircraft (6) 10 Relationship of rhino and fox with earache, gent treated (14, three words) 13 Mysteries of anonymous ladies artist captures?

30 3 is a definition of one unclued light (which 34 follows) and also a cryptic indication of 16A. 34 is marked by the holder of the 16A with a 40. One unclued light is the name of the 40, and one is the name of the holder of the 16A. One of these lights consists of three words.

A trio of unclued lights (four words, one with an apostrophe) gave rise to another trio found in four further unclued lights (eight words in total), all of which featured the two remaining unclued lights.   Across 1 Suspect fine spray having corrosion (8) 9 Assessment of arrangement of a tune and a viol (10) 14 Flower that’s popular with Nationalist (3) 16 Firm fish penned?

Five unclued lights make up a six-word quotation (verifiable in ODQ) by an author whose name must be highlighted in the grid. Remaining unclued lights, all real words in Chambers, each begin with a word suggested by the first two words of the quotation. Ignore two accents and one apostrophe.

Unclued entries are words or phrases whose meanings are not connected, but they are determined by the appearance in the grid of the last two lines of a poem, one word to each row. The first two lines of the poem appear in fourteen clues, whose answers do not touch the quotation in the grid, as extra words which must be removed before solving the clues.  The four lines of verse, read together, could form a succinct summary of the poem. Across 1 Company lacking new economic revenue (6) 7 To wit, two who?

Four pairs of unclued lights (5,5) represent their solutions and together equal the remaining trio of unclued lights.   Across 5 Student of mental disorders or ufos? (8) 10 Relative from BR or ER, apparently (11, hyphened) 11 Doctor’s verdict, a dosing is in order (9) 12 Deal with work in church (4) 17 Composer heard on roll (4) 19 Short set of maps isn’t representing this place (8) 20 Some sea-green bore (5) 26 Rig the ship mystically for churchman (10, two words) 29 Ultra? Quite wrong – one keeping residence apart (10) 34 Lively black cuckoo won game (8) 36 Its seeds produce 39. Cut! Cut! (4) 38 Male gypsies coasting around without care at first (7) 41 Leading industrialist backing Sir Murdoch?

Unclued across lights combine with down ones to form anagrams of four works (one of four words, one of three and two of two) from the same nd. Elsewhere, ignore an accent.   Across 7 Shaman’s inexpert (3) 11 Mary Jane hugs arriving amazon? (6) 13 Withdraw from dramatist, being cause of misery (7) 15 Merrymaking in bar after revolution (5) 18 Faintly excellent Scots knight impressed (5) 20 Twice heartless Joe Friday mistreated goddess (6) 22 Notice stunted serf cooking waffles (7) 27 Lass artless and pure moves in (7) 29 Sound bouquet contains a touch of iris (5) 30 Some poor anchorite in rude hut (6) 32 Sons taken out choose fresh salmon (5) 34 One oath bishop stifled (interpreted most favourably) (6, two words) 36 Quick learner enthralled by poetry? (5) 37 O for an award!

Each of eighteen clues contains one misprinted letter in the definition part. Corrections of misprints spell a four-word phrase which alludes to the unclued lights, indicating the position of one of them in relation to the others. One unclued light is  hyphened; elsewhere, ignore an accent.

The unclued lights are presented in the form of the Lover’s Knots below. Each ‘Knot’ can be unravelled into two words which are connected only for the purposes of this puzzle. These are then to be entered in the grid, always as pairs of consecutive lights.   LOVER’S KNOT CLUES a) A thin bride b) Bach ate tenderloins c) Clara’s feminine d) Islander’s mural e) Norse warfare   Across 1 Fractures both bits – a betrayal (13, three words) 9 Redhead notices extremists (4) 11 0 and O (for instance) sent between the unclued lights?

Four unclued lights might justly sing ‘4D/18/13’ (five words in total). A relevant pair of clued lights must be shaded.   Across 10    European secretes strange smeary enzyme (10) 11    Botanical description half recorded by child (6) 12    Big browser nibbled wood sorrel for pudding (7) 14    Welshman that is backing Nauru (5) 15     Fruit from classy old bush, bishop plucked (4) 16    Simple creature almost in a frenzy with English scholar (6) 23    Ancient inhabitant’s aim to be active (7) 24    An abrupt farewell from 6?

In each of 14 clues, the cryptic indication omits reference to one letter of the answer.  These letters must be highlighted, to reveal the name of someone who has had a number of 43, some of which are unclued lights, individually or paired.  Each of the remaining clues comprises a definition part and a hidden consecutive jumble of the answer including one extra letter; the extras are the unchecked letters of all seven unclued lights. One unclued light consists of three words, and one consists of two words.

The unclued lights (two of two words and the remainder when paired) are of a specific kind.   Across 1 Kind, like 7A (11, hyphened) 7 Well-spaced to start with (3) 13 Mate with old cattle causing fuss (7) 15 Singer losing nothing in outskirts of Mellieha – here! (5) 17 Money expended swapping model railway components (6) 18 This setter considers cross (5) 20 Changing stance, performs (6) 22 Campoli's sauce (7) 27 Cut fruit and drink (not hot) for bird (7) 29 Divers trousers for eccentrics (5) 30 Old quote for bit of gravel in garden path (6) 34 Ungenerous chap takes pound from girl (6) 36 Organised church spread (5) 37 One of 29 hogging good computer access (5, hyphened) 38 Separate independent thus, dead (7) 39 Money at bridge (6) 40 Short direction to land.

Definitions in ten clues are a letter down; missing letters, in clue order, spell out the creator of one unclued light (three words) which defines the other seven (including one hyphened). Elsewhere, ignore one accent.   Across   1          Chap started to mine free ores, developing alloy (14, hyphened) 10       From Austria, backless seat (4, two words) 12       Overact in a mad caper? (10) 13       Lingerie had fastener (4) 15       Abandoned barn’s for returning Chinese (6) 18       Use acres for waste (4) 21       Whence iron discipline?

The unclued lights (all verified in Brewer 18th and 19th editions) are of a kind. Elsewhere, ignore three accents.   Across 1 Overcome old film broadcast (8) 6 Tawdry item – small company holds a pile (6) 12 Ivy, out east, is after fish which have four faces (10) 13 Farewells losing one of two (5, two words) 15 Kite for flying over archaeological work housing a bit of loot in wood (10) 16 Years in France by border of city (7) 20 Leaving old flame with sex appeal (4) 22 Make a coat? No ideas circulating (7) 23 Official diploma that’s guaranteed (4) 24 A loveless pair with helpers – dozens!

2A, 118, 1 and 19 (three of five words and one of three, ignore two apostrophes) are of a kind. The first word of a further example sounds like what is defined by both 53 and 8/92; 39, 72 and 110 may each precede its second word; its third is associated with 75, 95/54D and 97; 37, 52A, 4, 43, 47D, 68, 74 and 107 are its fourth; its fifth is part of 57, 77 and 99; ‘34/62/35’ defines an anagram of its sixth; and its seventh capitalised is an abbreviation of the 6/91D. Its sixth word will appear diagonally in the grid and must be shaded.

Clues in italics are definitions only. In each of their answers, it is necessary to 32 10 (a four-word phrase) to create the word to be entered in the grid. Each of these entries (one of which is hyphened) is defined by an unclued light.