Each of five unclued lights (one hyphened) must be 28 in a 2 way.
Across
1 Naked German cuts elbow (5)
9 Fresh treatment of sick darling hen (10)
11 Chap twisted limb batting (5)
12 City in ravine colonel captured (7)
14 Dance with athletic Zulu round Lithuania (5)
15 Coed developed constant signal device (5)
16 English soul crossing river makes brilliant discovery (6)
22 Computer programs? Pit-sawyer’s lost without IT (7)
24 Knight shunned more agreeable piper perhaps (4)
25 Unit of volunteers Officer Commanding leads (4)
27 Man-eater (no maiden) dressed as necessary
(7, three words)
33 Maybe Arbuckle was excited about 27th element (6)
34 Remit of judge not cheery at heart (5)
35 Giant bird, one … (5)
37 … offering us excellent fatty acid (7)
38 Daughter’s beau cooked stew (5)
40 Like a dame in funny Ealing comedy pruning elm (9)
41 Poet’s material that’s regressive (5)
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