Cryptic indications in four clues are incomplete; in each case, the part not indicated is supplied by a 1D (two words). Two unclued lights and the 35 are synonyms of the first word of 1D; each of three unclued lights is defined by the second word of 1D, which is also the surname of a fictional character whose first name is the answer to a clue without a definition.
Across
9 Just disloyal, having time off (10)
14 Run and stop Greek character (3)
16 Take in troublesome situation with navy scattered (6)
17 Complete sphere around family (5)
20 Smirk depressing expert (7)
22 Learner in corrupt turn from direct course (7)
24 Silly rule hit instrument maker (7)
25 Tag, first off, attached to English tree (5)
26 Way of walking with a bagpipe (5)
28 Augment formerly unfinished home (7)
31 Being nervous near trap (7)
33 Hardest reforms for cardinals (7, two words)
37 Loud music in mass and elsewhere (5)
38 Unit designed with area for massage (5)
39 Pods, last in tub, fed to goose by baron (6, hyphened)
40 Pipe cover, not cold (3)
42 Strain altered form of insect (6)
43 Unhappy about tangle with man, grumpy type (8)
Down
2 High priest seen in bazaar once (5)
3 Lackey on demand in extremity (6)
4 Unavailable story mostly concerning birth (5)
6 Wrong to cut rate arranged for wine (7)
7 Room to manoeuvre east and west in field and yard (6)
8 Have to support good members of university (4)
10 Flag put forward in stand (6)
11 Prince in mob deployed old charm (9, hyphened)
12 Not reformed? Need true anger to change (13)
13 Vertebrate...
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