2144: Leonids

1D is the title of a work minus a word that is suggested by three further unclued lights. Other unclued lights include the person to whom the word refers, who is addressed in the work as ‘9’ (three words, one hyphened), and the addresser and his servant, both of whom are in disguise.
 

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Britain is living beyond its means

 
1    Pricking pain has put out pint-size person (5)
6    Fashionable neckwear available for sale (7, two words)
11    Odd drop of arabica can’t top an afters (10, two words)
13    English form following story about bitumen (9)
16    ‘Groovy’ divorcée with active manner (7)
17    American Red Cross treats fatty deposits (7)
18    Spring in España (3)
19    Traffic arrangement sparked local fever (10)
21    Melodious Bette eschews male drone (5)
24    Euan jumps about 47 inches (4)
28    Tree of heaven pruned poorly (5)
30    We’ll warm the chilly extra diners (10, two words)
35    Get old communist to shave (7)
36    Less stout fellow, one who scoffs! (7)
37    Hare-like beast a horned one rebutted (4)
39    Paint-brush Prince Hal and I designed (10, hyphened)
40    Range of watches currently fashionable (7)
41    Fruitful Bertie is decisive (5)
 

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2    Caledonian skivvy playing archlute (8)
4    City upset grump wandering alone (9)
5    Tailors smart ship engages (5)
6    Perhaps a third starveling peeled bananas (8)
7    Battle-axe?  (5)
8    Desert for upping oil (5)
10    Chap semi-embarrassed in Bow? (6)
12    Italy plugs very great painter (6)
14    Real ale for classy Irish town (6)
22    Exotic new kitchen king rejected (6)
23    Sun on Tuesday afternoon precedes storm tending to flood (8)
25    I may keep canaries and cuckoo as trivia (8)
26    Shrub from Peach State jovial cockney implanted (6)
29    Quixotic earthman cycling (6)
31    Region in South America, home of Leonidas (6)
32    East Indian wonder-worker nearly ahead riding backwards (5)
34    Drink starts to poison hammered character (5)
35    Jazz fan joins...