Four unclued lights can be arranged to form an eight-word excerpt from a quotation (in ODQ). One of these lights provides a cryptic indication of each of the other unclued lights. Each of thirteen clues comprises a definition and a hidden consecutive jumble of the answer including one extra letter; the extras spell the name of the person responsible for the quotation.
Across
9 Vessel holding a drink (4)
11 Grin, almost wickedly opposed to pluralism (10)
12 Binding bark, soft (4)
14 Glass, old and hollow, in cases (6)
17 Back artist in assembly (5)
18 Name lord’s province (5)
20 Misfortune in situation about taxes (7)
21 Juice, stored sloppily, runs away (7)
24 Troy in bad battle (5)
25 Lorry? It turned in curve (5)
27 Record pungent plant (7)
30 See, in revolutionary light, zero justice for work seekers’ group (7)
32 Reveal a dubious lack of initiative (7)
36 Bird enclosure (5)
37 Port duke finished (5)
38 Overrun island with force in retreat (6)
39 Earth in sun, firm and dry (4)
40 Minimum of money with no gross error (10)
41 Symbol wasted in addition (4)
42 Note sailor, accepting donors, changing sides (14)
Down
1 Mash a weak fruit (5)
2 Company worker’s material (5)
3 Devil bearing harm (6)
4 Show contempt, having raised money? Not good (5)
6 Pygmies once accepted books about independence (7)
7 Hanging spike I move round, right away (6)
8 Larva spoils basic garment (9, hyphened)
10 Jug bearing old, rejected flower (11, two words)
19 Air less tense after danger point in orbit (8)
21 Playwright fired star mistakenly (9)
22 Staggers back, regarding fakes (7)
26 Pass round ship, one for...
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