Each of 31 clues comprises a definition and a hidden consecutive jumble of the answer including one extra letter; the extras spell five words of a quotation in ODQ. The quotation’s next three words, identifying two groups, form an unclued light. Remaining clues are of the same type, but without extra letters in the jumbles; initial letters of these clues spell the author’s surname, which is an unclued light. Three unclued lights belong to one of the groups, and three unclued lights (one of which consists of two words) belong to the other.
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9 Depict broken home (4)
11 Fruit seller chops up dates (10)
12 Seaweed filling area (4)
14 Tour bus amid Italian region (6)
18 Pursue a thin rodent (5)
20 Bent appendage like a wing (7)
21 Defeat messenger considers (7)
23 Poisonous gas minister bans (7)
27 Quantum number drops in size (7)
30 Cardboard figure treated as novelty (7)
32 City had rejected government by two (7)
36 Scribe likes college (5)
37 Seek out rural place in Finland (5)
38 Disclose tunnel vision (6)
40 Uniform is tame and conventional (10)
41 Logician taken on voyage (4)
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