The unclued Across lights, when correctly paired with the unclued Down ones, are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer.
Across
4 Deer and setters disturbed fire-arm supports (11, hyphened)
11 Bits of lava surround unfortunate one (7)
13 Valentino edited modern work (9, hyphened)
14 Wader’s support (5)
19 African Moslems’ bad sinuses (7)
21 Isle’s black pick-up (4)
23 Young tree — one that’s alright round heather (7)
24 It’s almost flat panic, initially! (4)
30 Medley from a couple of little girls (7)
32 In full – on the run? (7, two words)
34 Bulrush from gutless turcophile (4)
35 Sideways request one City rejected (7)
37 Constituent at start of the year will have a good time (5)
40 Ray’s column, in part (5)
41 Seabird in game opening on ship (9)
43 Girl is after money for new publication (7)
44 Artist opens new penitentiary (11, hyphened)
Down
1 Excellent Firsts for students (11)
3 Fully 100 mph on the Severn (5)
5 Bone of powerful nature (4)
7 Philosopher making 15 rise round meadow (7)
8 Notes impulse to rise again (7)
9 Day’s work includes frightful maul for liquor, for instance (9)
10 Satellite rattles around (7)
15 see 7 (5)
17 Campanologists are almost identical (7)
18 Agent taken badly, when deputised (11)
22 So one lifted a catch on a dance (9)
26 Lyric and display without G and T (5)
27 Old diagram includes horrible US topper (7, hyphened)
28 Mammal with mysterious power and support (7)
36 Informer accepted love-bond (5)
38 Ploughs dried up (4)
39 Workhouse cut pearls (4)
A first prize of £30 for the first correct solution opened on 14 October. There are two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word ‘Dictionary’). Entries to: Crossword 2132, The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP. Please allow six weeks for prize delivery.

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