‘1A (four words)!’ is a quotation suggesting the link between the other seven unclued lights (all real words). The domain of the screamer is a clued light and must be shaded.
Across
11 Ailing I lie abed a couple of times and weaken (10)
14 Suit Australian stored in home county (6)
17 Student wrenched baguette out of satchel (5)
18 Poetic heathen god upset me (5)
20 Boundless thespians playing at the same stage (7)
21 At which time take food in (wholemeal) (7)
23 Sweetie from Austria cut sullen American (7)
24 Oxide in Balkan state is exported (5)
25 Round fortified houses are motionless (5)
27 As simplest creature in US, man in media messed up (7)
30 Lass steely at heart wrestles with ninja (7)
32 Fruit I eat with energy or nuts (7)
36 Chap leaving hotel richly arrayed (5)
37 Upright primate starts to accept kabala (5)
38 Yellow nice coloured dyestuff (6)
39 Campanile’s part indigo (4)
40 Canoe after refit becoming like many ships (10, hyphened)
41 Tied up fast (4)
42 Fever from touching seaside rocks (14, two words)
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