2072: Pediculi

‘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.

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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)

Down

1 Kilns in fertile spot (temperature not ideal at first) (5)
2 International besotted with fast cars (5)
3 Least assiduous lecturer that’s external (6)
4 Girder clumsy engineering scholar inserted (5, hyphened)
5 Important type of fellow’s crushed beans (7, two words)
6 Emir dances with bird in narrow thong (7)
7 Needing hospital to try and temper secretion (6)
8 Hopeless fruit salesmen (250) rolling in (9)
10 Criminal tore plusher cushion again (11)
13 Fitter stripped hall with no columns (7)
16 Hard case nearly provided one dainty written statement (11)
19 Fresh farm cheese and no starters? Me too! (8, two words)
21 Journal court keeps about best dressed king (9, two words)
26 Mushrooms crop up in India (7)
28 Deposit rupees low fine consumes (7)
31 Grasses, sorry to say, no good for planting (6)
35 Empty stork dined on fish (5)