The unclued lights (all of two or three words, some hyphened and all confirmed in Chambers) can be arranged into a consecutive sequence. Each light includes a different word which has to be represented in just one unchecked square.
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4 General beginning to network as a gamble whenever in charge (11, hyphened)
11 Very keen on plan outside platform (7)
13 Vehicle in France is a decrepit crate (9, two words)
14 Symbols of a Stoic philosophical principle (5)
19 Relative crushes (7, two words)
21 First half of game in one’s own home (4)
23 Rouses, getting active by noon during Northern holiday (7)
24 Queen’s French degree (4)
25 Food for cattle – almost kilo each, roughly (7, hyphened)
30 Peevish about truffle (7)
31 Spoke – on the phone? (4)
32 Hard-working student and his coach (7)
34 The same doctor returned with no cocaine (4)
37 Dry wind and snow on glacier reported (5)
40 Loathe sailor white with age, we hear (5)
41 Roma – venue prepared for engineer (9)
43 Poor Cornelia loses eastern trumpet (7)
44 Spenser does wreck peace and quiet (11)
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