Crossword

The eight six-letter unclued lights half-overlap each other and so yield a complete word chain beginning with any one of them.         Across    1    Complex U-turn before end of lane. Wrong!

The unclued entries (two of one word, two of two words, two of three words) combine to form a quotation. Elsewhere, ignore two accents.         Across    1    Promotions to fix in commercial vehicles (12) 10    Eager pupil’s plea for online phenomenon (4) 12    Cockney dish rose, having turned end (3,1,4,2) 14    Remark further problem with concentration (3) 15    Angler uses this weight in river, they say (8) 17    Gold cloth piece is not silver – this might be either (5) 18    Win back billion, not having a scale again (7) 19    Understanding one?

Unclued lights (including one hyphened) are of a kind. The theme word must be highlighted in the grid.

The unclued lights are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer with the help of the red squares which must be read in order row by row. Ignore one apostrophe and an acute accent, elsewhere. Across 9    Terrible President out on a limb at heart, troubled (10) 14    Courier company raises its charges (3) 16    Make one see red – possibly green and a touch of amber! (6) 17    Author moving gently, dropping article (5) 20    Mathematician coming across wife in Milton Keynes, say (3,4) 22    Travels by plane and a Roman road to Timeless Test (7) 24    Highbrow title is affected (7) 25    Sounding like Matilda’s creator’s Indian dishes (5) 26    Youngster central to 19, sadly (5) 28    See what people say?

The 37 and 38 evoke 16D 22A/26, once 19 26, the 19 being 6 at the 41 5, 41 26 and 41 13.          Across    1    Language school opened by Republican state (8) 11    Repeatedly check bones in historical operation (10) 14    Sweet red Dutch headwear (8) 16    US city king boxes to unwind (5) 17    Blotto man does spirits (7) 18    Animal in vehicle, one about to get skinned (7) 23    Hangs from small steep rocks (6) 24    American English crudely translated☺?

Unclued lights, including one of two words, are anagrams of words of a kind. Solvers must highlight two pairs of clued answers which are anagrams of two further examples.         Across    1    Recited end of epic with ghosts (8)    8    Special forces protecting large trees (4) 11    Oddly, Ivor ain’t a Welshman (4) 12    A run through e.g.

The unclued lights (one hyphened and plural, and another in the past tense) are of a kind, all verifiable as such in Chambers, most of them on a specific page.

Eight unclued lights are of a kind. Their unchecked and mutually checked letters can be rearranged to spell TOY OF A PARISH DEACON.

Unclued lights name an authoress (two lights), her hero (two lights), his group (one light, two words), and its members (mostly human). Across 4    Stimulant gets lad near to collapse at home (9) 10    FBI agents after government department: time to clean up files (10) 14    In mill channel pressure rose suddenly (5) 15    Labourer present: success! (5) 16    Makes up clothes I put on (6) 23    Heinous mistakes, not using outside help (2-5) 24    Close down early, but not entirely (4) 25    Idea spread by first person more than once (4) 29    Lambs he’s butchered here?

The unclued lights (one of two words) and four others clued without their thematic definition are of a kind. Across 1    Two little boys tapped their heads (6)7    Birettas seldom reveal this tuft (6)13    US challenge to foil and dismiss at the wicket (5)14    Material from The Spectator, London (5)17    Salary and gratuity, collected by mail (7)18    Incandescent, he’d be forced to put rubbish out (3,3)19    Infection covered by the oculist? Yes! (4)22    C19th biologist’s not left film director (6)25    Violinist’s bow? No, the other end! (5)26    Followed the progress, we hear, of Lenten psalm (5)33    Study Latin on express (4)36    Live broadcast with the French (6)40    Friendly greeting unwanted amongst Heinz’s offering?

Each Across unclued light is associated in the same way with a Down one (one of two words).         Across    1    In small conurbations, transport deficiencies (10)    7    Walk from Piraeus to Athens (4) 15    Huge resistance from masculine self-importance? I wonder (6) 18    PM’s residence about to receive first of rock stars (5) 19    Correct uncle, and head’s bitten off (5) 25    Cheers afternoon, taking in TV hospital show (7) 26    Excellent on Polish and Persian verse (5) 27    A line gets out of position rapidly (5) 29    Dull, like a little lake?

29 29-36’s 14 13 31 25 1D 2 24, in which 1 Down and 24 are each non-words that concatenate two real terms. Unchecked, unclued letters spell out SEXY DUTCH X-MAG.

The unclued lights (six of two words and one of three words), one pair or individually, are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. Ignore one apostrophe.         Across    1    Declare nothing will stop crime, causing disgust (8)    6    Attack, losing head in drinking bout (6) 11    Objects to intellects (5) 13    Young girl by supermarket, getting potato (7) 14    Humble faculty head embraces Doc (6) 16    Tail, small and trim (4) 17    Certainly not Greenland! (2-2,4) 21    African, say, on the wing, no good performing (3-5) 23    What about painting crosswise?

You can calculate 48 by 1 + 47 (ten words in total). However, 21 32 12 23 47 (nine words in total). The remaining unclued lights are the two authors who said so.         Across 14    Not so sure judge needs latitude to be good (6) 17    Sacred halls rebuilt in poor area (7) 18    9 stocks such organs (4) 19    Woman wanting hospital to make changes (4) 20    Sign of aging, like an Irish circus, say?

Paired unclued lights are an author and his eponymous characters. Crossing letters in 7D suggest the name in the title; solvers must correct this, entering the character’s real name by changing the contents of four cells, always making real words.         Across    1    A mob alas with disorder of gut (8) 11    I head into transport, and fit into attire (8,4) 14    Silly berk and his containers (7) 15    Table of bard essentially?

The unclued lights, (four of two words), when arranged correctly, yield a famous TV quotation. One word does double duty; ignore an apostrophe too.         Across    4    Oblige to provide lodgings? (11) 11    Spanish food of peas cooked with everybody inside (7) 14    Gave a present that’s not about to be old-fashioned (5) 19    Complaint made by one head about pupils (7) 21    Smoke in the Tube (4) 23    Whirlwind Frank making Tony hop (7) 24    Duck having twitch of the ear (4) 25    Yes, indeed. Under 50% (3,4) 30    Performers in drag?

Eleven unclued entries may be connected from 38 to 17, their unchecked letters spelling out CHAIN’S PAIRS, WE AGREE?         Across    1    Maximum animosity reported (4)    3    Vineyard by cross (4)    5    Losing starter, rubbish service is behind (6)    9    Again communicate on mobile in van (10) 16    Mostly free car port (6) 18    Shocking accompaniment to seizure? (5) 20    Dull as a lake?

The 12 thematic unclued lights form the second half of an alphabetical list, one solution finally and another first and last.

The thirteen thematic unclued lights form the first half of an alphabetical list. Ignore all accents. Across 10    Cut-throat chap’s birds (10) 13    Behavioural stimulus affected Earl 8 (8) 16    Girl in chains? (5) 17    Skilfully handled – after a stroke? (7) 18    White van going across Indian territory first (7) 20    Revised asking price a German rejected for US travelling bag (8) 25    Jack starts to play up rudely (3) 26    Gold mace is a good omen (7) 28    22-0 rout. So divine! (7) 29    Little boy at Orkney creek (3) 31    Ace pilot crashed – of lyrical bent (8) 34    Almost finally having Midwest displayed in these?

Unclued lights give the names (one of two words) of some members of a distinguished group. A further member is the answer to a clued light and should be highlighted. One name does double duty.