Across unclued lights combine with down ones to form anagrams of the titles (one of two words) of four works by an author whose name (three words) will appear diagonally in the completed grid and must be shaded. Elsewhere, ignore an apostrophe and an accent.
Across
4 Plant is beset by little light breeze (11, two words)
11 Saint knocked back classy French wine in error (9)
13 Backing bonnie prince is actor Derek with Siamese silver (11)
14 Not many crossing Lima scooted (4)
18 Bard’s tenure of pasture not 500 metres distant ahead (7, hyphened)
19 Soldier put in flowering plant for officer (7)
22 Zulu chief is popular king and very great one (6)
23 Placate empty boyfriend with plates of meat (6)
24 Solvent pedaller’s wheels (5)
27 Which person’s wife needs stockings? (5)
31 Belt of gold round general (6)
34 Cop that’s meeting resistance gets more grumpy (7)
35 Haydn’s melody requiring gold flute (7)
39 Sometime hug half Irish lasses (4)
40 Big flatiron crushed bone (11, two words)
41 One Friesian possibly not at home in heaven (5)
42 Trees prejudiced public safety (no fib) (9)
43 Dish containing endless subterranean nuts (11)
Down
1 Put out mugs as powder receptacles (11, two words)
3 Insect excluders examine ordinary beetles outside (11, two words)
5 Unyielding woman chap left finally (7)
6 Twist dancing clubber losing heart (6)
7 Tunnel carries wheeled vehicle far (6)
9 Be upset by badness (4)
10 Shopkeeper winds North American up (9)
15 Passes by cats very hidden (5)
16 Motorsports distracted soldiers (11, two words)
17 Expert linguist reviewed literations (11)
20 Bishop with a vestment stops Mary Jane getting white stuff (9, two words)
25 Hired a navvy partly for fieldwork (5)
26 Take a meal in Tanzania (3)
28 Gun is for absolute criminal (7)
30 Icy emcee snubbed Holly? (7)
32 Bread in hard ball involving a couple of rolls (6)
33 Toddler erected tent on grass (6, two words)
36 Kill the boundless misery of Ruskin (5)
A first prize of £30 for the first correct solution opened on 1 September.
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