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The unclued lights are of a kind and may be divided into two groups. Chambers does not list 41. Elsewhere, ignore an apostrophe and two accents.

Name Address ACROSS 1 I sort out food for college (14, 2 words) 9 Something harsh before food (fish) (4) 11 Forfeiture last month put one in, so (9) 12 Bays on volcanoes' extremes (4) 14 Master ordered helmets (6) 16 Where the inexperienced bowl?

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17 Saints choose to be beheaded (5) 20 Look into race with three divisions (7) 24 The battle-axe: she embraces the role (7) 25 Wind-blown deposit loses constituents (5) 26 Piece of paper crumpled these

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28 Anger stirred about state ornament (7) 31 Leaves the continent, taking in Channel Islands. and Dover, initially (7) 37 Prince wearing posh outer garment (5) 38 Boil fish (5) 39 Interject with difficulty and decisiveness on the spot (6, two words) 40 Former noble caste from Iran? No (4) 43 Nice area Caesar cleared out for insectivorous plants (14) DOWN 1 Knives spoken of for African shrubs (6) 3 During game upset, send out for port (6) 4 Film mount (5) 6 Poet of war? (7) 8 Indecision upset American poet, right away (8) 13 Gets angry about dress around mid-week (7, two words) 15 Limation affected orchid genus (8) 19 Form a community to rebuild open temple (without National Trust) (8) 23 Press review about old German religious books (8) 27 Sinatra turned empress (7) 29 Support top-rated sequence of steps (7) 32 Shopping-bag with name by a changing but (6) 33 Building extension formerly held by Queen (6) 35 Speckled hen without a sheep (5) 36 Where leading Maoris assemble regularly, always expounding (5)