Six unclued lights, the sixth spelt in its original way, are members of a team proclaimed dramatically at a venue given by the remaining pair. The proclaimer and team leader appears diagonally in the completed grid and must be shaded. Elsewhere, ignore an accent.
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1 Minister and unknown independent in conflict (5)
9 Eyelid injured fixing jerk’s wheel (10, two words)
11 God cardinal had cheered (5)
14 Treacherous Scots not wearing blue (5)
15 Fine leapers must clear tops of houses (5)
16 Stick in this place east of Hoosier State (6)
21 Being from Iceland with mobile home? (8)
22 Skittish Catherine with large number of yen (7)
24 Aged Aberdonian lord is after gold (4)
28 Frugal fellow splits 30 bananas (7)
30 European sonatas composed to correspond in sound (8)
35 Drug taken by poorer messenger (6)
36 Continue to lay concrete (5)
37 It’s well worth having hound baron let go (5)
39 Groups of flapping touracos are lost (7)
40 American goosefoot’s no ordinary antipyretic (5)
41 Somite rather more unusual (10)
42 Where eggs could be sent when varying buffets (9, two words)
43 Female cat painter captured (5)
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