‘14/7’ (four words in all) is part of a quotation from 29/1D in ODQ and is what the remaining unclued lights do in slightly different ways. The title of the relevant work will appear in the completed grid and must be shaded. Elsewhere, ignore an apostrophe and an accent.
Across
1 Mate nautical jester heckles (14)
9 Ancient sage twice accepted shares (4)
11 Be very surprised when earl appeases mob? (10, three words)
17 Menial treasure scrubbing third floor … (5)
18 … complete surface is thoroughly clean (5, two words)
20 Philosopher in deep thought crashed car (7)
21 Yard to sing about in London borough (7)
23 Counsel in flap after associate departs (7)
27 Ceremonies go quickly (almost crisply brief) (7)
30 Creature getting tender forefeet when cut badly (7)
32 Top players join retired and reducing musical group (7)
36 Ancient shrub (5)
37 Circuit of medic visiting island (5)
38 Always astute but no trace of wit, weirdly (6)
40 Artist that’s succeeded suppresses less good satires (10)
41 Kelp possibly left in stove (4)
42 Eat some meat plus six pieces of cake and get stuffed (14, three words)
Down
2 Spicy food from Thailand upset monk (5)
3 Rhenium in stomach scanned again (6)
4 Jockey has to mount (5)
5 City’s renewed boom after depression (7)
6 County allowed one to enter border (7)
8 Coach crosses cool town (9)
10 Bury starts to reinstate original street pump (11)
13 Mayor’s assistant smoked reefer in EastEnders? (7)
15 Overacted plays no ace directed (8)
16 Rigid sermon after this? (11)
19 Some seaplane sky hid or obscured (8)
21 Chap pinching fellow’s food (9)
22 Painting, say, of cunning group of scholars? (7, two words)
26 King divorced sickly skeletal lass (7)
28 Girl lives with radio ham (7)
31 Friar on island protected by aged palisade (6)
33 White liquid upset over English...
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