The unclued four-letter words can be paired in a particular way to form the remaining unclued lights (one of two words).
Across
5 Be in contact with a jock’s love-in (6)
10 Isolation of actors Chaney and Wallach by headland (10)
12 Scar on saint is something of a problem (6)
13 Still the champion, having downed the sticky bun first (8)
16 Little US heads (5)
17 Hermes’ footwear for 100 sene at ‘The Valley’ (7)
18 Does the gallery own something like Trident? (7)
20 European calls young lad back (8)
25 German listener returned letter (3)
26 Vessel finally met German submarine around midnight (7)
28 That accursed rabid hound is back and starts to nuzzle (7)
29 Possess topless dress (3)
34 Screen off red rose (7)
36 Write at length of measure Elgar composed (7)
39 Would it wake god in the morning? (5)
40 Tarried with daughter after removing one from underclothes (8)
41 A cross with island’s sayings (6)
42 Were two gins mixed making this? (10, two words)
43 Prior, say, may guard ring (6)
Down
1 Graduates turning out with African (6)
2 Scruffy magistrate read out (8, hyphened)
3 Girl left out ungenerous fellow (6)
4 Spanish composer cut the Choral Symphony (5)
7 22 records about prehistoric fish (11)
11 Understanding outcome of 10 + 10E (7)
15 Chorister in Walton’s embrace (4)
16 John Bishop swapped the same availability of fruit (11, two words)
21 Tick number on record (4)
23 Hoopla or coconut shy is a legitimate object for attack (8, two words)
24 Picnic bap that’s mine to spread out (7, two words)
27 Hoodwinking nonsense poet in house, endlessly (8)
30 ...
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