The unclued lights, five of which are correctly numbered, are of a kind. Ignore one accent. Chambers does not include the solution at 29D.
Across
01 Have nothing to do with letter read out to John — needs amending (13, five words)
09 European dormouse cutting 42 thematically (4)
11 Countrywomen who work in resorts (10)
12 Regularly assaulted coming to auction (4)
14 Passes degrees (6)
16 Maybe the phoenix by one or two toadstools (5)
17 Duran Duran’s lead singer backed inventor (5)
21 Relatively speaking, very much like the dew (7)
23 Bridle at port’s loveless sweetheart (7)
24 Brutally killed backing some colonial subterfuge (5)
27 A bobby-dazzler remains in Southern Sea, in France (7)
30 Fugitive’s key to a leak (7)
32 Hardly the headgear that’s worn around work (7, hyphened)
37 Scoundrel with no time for gaffe (5)
40 Cine peters out in hearts of US eruptions (10)
42 A blushing leaseholder (13, two words)
Down
01 Bank’s not streamlined (5)
04 A rocket from the head (5)
05 Eccentric duke in two events — the first upset (7)
06 Apparently a noblewoman, brave, topless and unable to hear (7)
08 Vowel rhyme showing aeons scan awkwardly (9)
10 Copper enters rebuilt tool-room, causing eyes to swivel (10)
13 All together, just after service on the radio (7, two words)
15 Clyde ran out to remove dirt with solvent (8, hyphened)
18 In France, you must embrace ditsy officer — not loud.
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