This puzzle marks a 42/27 by 11 in 17/19. Five other unclued lights (one twice hyphened) together suggest another form of 42/47: solvers must shade the pair. Elsewhere, ignore an accent.
Across
12 Description of diseases in German, prosy Noah revised (10)
14 Necklace from coastal region shortened by earl (7)
15 Not quite excellent distinctive dresses for balls (10)
16 Piano queen behind very good singers (7)
20 Tent constantly capsizing, lecturer dumped (4)
22 Amateur has put up platform … (7, two words)
23 … torn apart by gale (4)
24 Release of gang without charge (7, two words)
26 Lass in dress beginning to tan in the sun (7)
30 Here is parrot in conversation (4)
31 Old bit of fencing to get through round part of harem (7)
34 What’s left of firestone (4)
36 Georgia meets top NCO to request wartime protection (7, two words)
38 Being untouched by cattiness knight relaxed (10)
39 Bicyclist not starting without spot of liquid dodges dryness (7)
40 Remote spot down under lad skinned goat in (5)
41 Grouse in these grey haunts of predacious birds (10)
43 Ignoring CO, code-breaker runs off new handbook (8)
Down
2 Acceptable dish for nineteen (8)
3 Suffer because of scoundrel (5)
4 Enormous canvases showing bard’s appearances (7)
5 Abundance of ducks deserted pools (7)
6 Rita burst ingesting six trifles (6)
8 Old songs always remain timeless (5)
9 Son’s husky played with mere macaques (13, two words)
10 Hippo assorted bats addressed (13)
18 Comic actress dull fellow snubbed (5)
21 Prince nursing male birds … (5)
25 … without ribs in green country? (8)
28 Large academy heads support for maths (7)
32 Bird’s cry enthralling nearly everyone (6, two words)
33 Jock’s ass and pig, fox upset (6)
35 Jones, maybe very blue, missing daughter (5)
37 Big beast sullen king spurned (5)
A first prize of £30 for the first...
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