Crossword

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.

The unclued Down lights are of a kind, as are the unclued Across ones.   Across 1 Accent reflecting everything at the start of this month (7) 6 Harp, maybe — as a liqueur (7) 11 Iranian city providing a graduate with honorary title (6) 12 In building, this edge puts out joiner (7) 14 Manual, if lost — claim!

In September sadly we lost 15 (two words) and 12/19. The former produced the 29 of the 4-winning ‘1A/18/39’ (six words in all) while the latter made a successful 33 of the same name. Ignore an apostrophe.   Across 9 Woman hates me bareheaded?

The unclued lights, (one of four words), can be arranged to form a quotation, verifiable in  ODQ. One unclued light does double duty. Across 1  Ape hasn’t played some game (8) 6 Lawyer admitted to most of source of power of Jews (6) 13 Vicious Israeli (lacking eyes, they say?

9 is now the home of the remaining unclued lights, individually or as a pair. Ignore all accents both in the grid and the clues. Brewer confirms the theme. Across 1 Control diarist meant to arrange (12) 10 Manager’s department.

Seven 1D lights are unclued. Across 1 Carnivore longing to enter Gordon’s dining room (5) 6 Female musical figure is King’s deputy (7) 11 Constancy of a husband from this place in Bow? (10) 13 Sapless sex maniac peppered couscous? Not so (9) 16 Poem from Turkey Eliot translated (7) 17 Dutch uncle in Australia starts to condemn sailing boats (7) 19 Syrup in pail wicked with éclair (10) 21 Fragrant oil brought round for Jack (5) 24 Noble paragon ignores papa (4) 28 Minister’s aide backing proper poseur (5) 30 Unknown hideous Renoirs empty awful old galleries (10, hyphened) 33 Wickedness in Land of Lincoln (3) 36 Distinctive form of square poncho?

One unclued light, a term for any member of a group to which two unclued lights belong, can be divided into three words; each of these has two synonyms among the remaining unclued lights.

The unclued lights, (one of two words), individually or as three pairs, are of a kind. Collins Dictionary confirms the spelling at 29A. Across 2 Poet seriously starting to think in French (7) 10 see 42A (3) 12 Wood work in exam (5) 14 Medley from little boy and little girl (7) 15 Tenor changing uniform with Oscar (6) 17 Exhaust with massage (4, two words) 18 US mine-owner is a shark (8) 22 It’s hit around to enjoy oneself on course (8, two words) 23 Reserve university sportsman is very pale (7, hyphened) 25 What’s left of the bortsch?

Part of a literary work (13 words) goes clockwise around the perimeter starting from square 1. Remaining unclued lights are anagrams of five words which make up a key image from the work. Letters in the twenty unchecked perimeter squares could give: DIT WHERE I CHIDE and SEDUCE. Elsewhere, ignore one apostrophe. Across 10 One goes in hospital department with hesitation touching back (7) 11 Boat touring home land (6) 14 Bird caught in low country (7) 15 Naive politician, Liberal, one’s put in place (9) 16 Detachment to join up again?

Unclued entries (all real words) are not thematic unless they are augmented, in each case by a letter appearing in an appropriate place in the grid.  The solutions at 6, 19, 29 and 40 are confirmed in the OED. Across 1 Marine plant-life treated as grass by duck (8) 8 Measure lack of aspiration shown by Lisa’s dad (4) 12 Thoughtful response I agonised over (10) 13 Difficulty acting to modified rhythm (6) 14 Wretched two of clubs, discard to South, the weakest constituent of pack?

The unclued lights (one of two words, one of which is an abbreviation) are of kind and between them go back to number 1. Elsewhere, ignore an accent.

Each of five unclued lights (one hyphened) must be 28 in a 2 way. Across 1    Naked German cuts elbow (5) 9    Fresh treatment of sick darling hen (10) 11    Chap twisted limb batting (5) 12    City in ravine colonel captured (7) 14    Dance with athletic Zulu round Lithuania (5) 15    Coed developed constant signal device (5) 16    English soul crossing river makes brilliant discovery (6) 22    Computer programs?

Each of twenty-one definitions contains one misprinted letter. Corrections of misprints spell two items of the same kind as the unclued lights. Two unclued lights consist of two words each.