Unclued entries are words or phrases whose meanings are not connected, but they are determined by the appearance in the grid of the last two lines of a poem, one word to each row. The first two lines of the poem appear in fourteen clues, whose answers do not touch the quotation in the grid, as extra words which must be removed before solving the clues. The four lines of verse, read together, could form a succinct summary of the poem.
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1 Company lacking new economic revenue (6)
7 To wit, two who? (6)
11 Weed to plant in tree (or to plant around vegetable) (9, three words)
12 Drug horse covering eleven roads (5)
15 I’m not sure about a theorist (9)
16 Note about when husband diverged with one in golf club (6)
21 Maiden out of mushrooms takes in ecstasy as an alternative (6, two words)
22 In certain trees, not right, furthest on left? (6)
26 Some rice delivers a yield (4)
27 Yellow one who swam Channel, not with part of tide (3)
28 Empty Victoria Wood pursues posh grape (3)
32 Pound and Keats end having least coverage (8)
35 Sorry Dutch nurse not available to be governess (6)
37 After children squeal, adult intervenes (7)
39 We are parking close to something I used offensively (6)
42 Place to relax — one could put in slack cleaner (9, two words)
43 Person forging surname that’s not common (5)
44 Standard article in American papers discredited regime (9)
46 Carbon + hydrocarbon — hydrogen = hydrocarbon (6)
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