Each of seven definitions contains one misprinted letter. Corrections of misprints spell an alternative title for the puzzle, defining the unclued lights.
Across
1 Anticipating trick by director in compilation, sons squeal (14, hyphened)
9 Right covering round gnat (4)
11 Mad lord, never a traveller across country (10)
12 Wish to have messenger omitting nothing (4)
14 Blew last of kisses before journey east (6)
17 Capital site of oracle yielding power (5)
18 Citizen of port back in refined age (5)
20 Drama with edge about litter (7)
21 Javelins in fun endlessly covering grass (7)
23 Relatives in saga, ten involved (7)
24 Island in disorder without singular unit of currency (5)
25 Marvellous coat worn by soldier (5)
30 Case against fresh air in hospital (7)
32 Energy company is reversing arrangement of bills (7)
36 Nothing inhibits independent woman (5)
37 Tooth’s backward curve broken by nut (5)
38 Cold queen repelled by hard graft (6)
39 Trouble after knight spoke (4)
41 Offhand elf losing following (4)
42 Northern meadow’s change captured by leading artist (14, two words)
Down
1 Collection of horses on unknown road (5)
4 Rough edge round old cavity (5)
5 Pressure from dope in beginning? Not so (7)
6 Abusive answer, in commotion, I caught (7)
7 Upset doctor taken in by current underworld expressions (6)
13 Use of enclosed place for cutting of coal (7)
15 Mate, dropping name, in control of psychiatrist’s practice (8)
21 One-piece garments in clubs perhaps within bounds (9)
22 Is note on a new city in Iran? (7)
26 Break with league forming part of church (7)
28 Rebuild piping, admitting uncertainty (7, hyphened)
29 Lizard...
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