2081: Four of each | 19 September 2012

Each of five unclued lights (one hyphened) must be 28 in a 2 way.

Across

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Ameer Kotecha

Lindt has cheapened itself

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)

Down

1    Production of Lear never seen, sons directed
(13, two words)
4    Top sliced bread in ancient land (6)
5    Indigo cuckoo close to colourful (4)
6    Madder root from Ocean State Elizabeth planted (7
7    Sheep canine soon pens (5)
8    Stray marble chap annexed (8)
10    After rebuild morgue canteen is cheering (13)
13    Predator in Lower Egypt murdered no pet
(7, two words)
15    Chefs regularly going after vintage puzzles (6)
17    Worldwide collection of coloured tureens king dumped (6)
18    Note pressing wife to clean DJ (6)
19    Mussolini escaped boring imprisonment (7)
20    Old beetle displaying black horn (second missing) (6)
23    Ownership of goodly trough less than full (8)
26    Fellow rarely moral concerning truth (7)
29    Pregnant Greek’s greedy (6)
30    Sixth imam’s son sits on post (6)
32    Sea starts to inundate all channels (5)
36    Ghanaian slip-on shortened twice (4)

A first prize of £30 for the first correct solution opened on 8 October. There are two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word ‘Dictionary’).