Unclued lights form four thematic pairs, one of which combines to form a single word.
Across
1 Working prophets allege they carry cables (14, two words)
10 Reptile in summer (5)
11 Jacket of lass in Alaska (6)
12 Problem in thatching started again (7)
16 Bones to bury beside ray-flowers (10)
20 Libertine close to fun river port (5)
21 Cross objector making wine … (7)
22 … measures pigeons losing height (5)
31 Although no longer tiddly sow enters house (5)
33 Perhaps cold Dumpynose will spit (7)
34 Copper is following about bad Ozzie (5)
35 Saints holding the Queen is right to expose blasphemers (8)
36 Uniformed PA abandoned idea to abscond (10, doubly hyphened)
38 Slight cut is old cut (4)
39 Mother paid for eastern plantain (7)
41 Get out wooden leg (5)
42 Budgerigars peel fruit amid leaves (14, two words)
Down
1 Enzymes Bohemian storks might produce (14)
2 Some whip deficient maid-servant hard (4)
3 Lecturer absorbed by dirty undercoat, removing soluble particles (10)
4 Theatre shareholder has energy to come on stage again (7, hyphened)
5 Choppy sea inundates post office and promenade (5)
6 Retired soldiers hit awful poverty in Peebles (8)
7 Clapping but not apparently extolling (7)
8 Lousiest scions stirred up trouble (14)
9 Hymn old PM snubbed, corporation embraces (6, two words)
13 Plate musketeer drops outside (5)
15 Some lariat alternatively? (5)
18 What printers use in Cambodia (3)
19 Poet’s strenuous rumba and loose jigging (10)
23 Writer has to watch over Harry (8)
26 Ogle dairymaid rustic Gael retains (7, two words)
28 Being unknown in county (5)
30 Sick manatee gets fluids injected (7)
35 Salvation Army carrying cross and shields (5)
37 Pot or mug? (4)
A first prize of £30 for the first correct solution opened on 3 February.
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