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.
Across
1 Visits made by guys (5)
9 Bearers of nominal offices in knots about strange ritual (10)
11 Scrape preceded by college rags (5)
12 Marks by English tutor mostly giving reminder (7)
15 Stains around suits (5)
16 Slanting section, see, in copy (6)
22 Constant line endlessly producing sausage (7)
24 Son variable with attention (4)
25 Lost gold returned with thanks (4)
27 Move from last king for example on ship (7)
33 One knowing nothing worked on a rig (6)
34 Rapid river carrying stone (5)
37 Time in city, odd base (7)
39 Source inclined to be rich (10, hyphened)
40 Quick fish? Note colour (9)
41 Divers in the morning exercise (5)
Down
1 Help Costa Rica, changing section of treaty (13, two words)
2 Fierce husband in charge (6)
4 Healed, about right, and made purring sound (6)
5 Love top rink (4)
6 Newly shut up inside fine bank (7)
7 Tense? What about alien husks? (5)
8 Past tour involved old areas remote from centre (8)
10 Monk, humourless, sitting in wonky seat (13)
13 Deflated fool sadly blushing (7)
15 Land, losing left boot (6)
17 Trouble with sanctions raised for drinking-songs (6)
18 Pet runs and runs, surrounded by fuel (6)
19 Real and complicated gland (7)
26 Learner taken in by rising soothsayer following a racket (7)
29 Revolt thus supported by house (6)
30 Long, long without power over border (6)
31 Shove matter around margin (6)
32 Mad person ignoring new toll (5)
36 Some fear eager legion (4)
A first prize of £30 for the first correct solution opened on 1 October.
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