Four of the unclued entries make up a ten-word Shakespearean quotation, including an apostrophe. The other three (two of two words each) represent three possible victims. Elsewhere, ignore an accent. 34 is in Brewer’s.
Across
11 He almost banned awfully poisonous plant (7)
12 Cross Spain with a formative stage (4)
14 Editor buys the farm and moves round (6)
17 See a wretch regularly buried in soil (5)
19 Breaking in Irish rugby games is initially no good (9)
21 Wet month, and its beginning? (5)
23 Runs are runs, and not so easy to come by (5)
25 It’s fun to cover an important body – in this? (8, two words)
26 Means of access to get in plane, say? (6)
27 Holding king in carriage (6)
29 Rare objection to act constraining Scottish sportsman but not forever (8)
31 Studied turning round black electrical unit (5)
33 Stench surrounding most of wicked scar (5)
34 Possibly wormy bale? (9, two words)
36 Bewildered, in the main (5, two words)
39 Flowers are carried by goddess (8)
40 Extremely vile smell connected with certain body parts (6)
41 Gossips chatter about bishop (4)
42 Knotted around fifty knots (7)
43 Novak finally returns good shot – with this? (12, two words)
Down
2 Ian’s denied left-winger was rebellious (9)
3 Log support plus strength (7)
4 Gutted leopard-cat brought up ounce in Tibet (4)
5 How pupils can be organised to study small pictures (6)
6 Measures devised to protect one essentially (9)
7 Badgers use that habitat, ultimately (4)
8 Fertiliser troubled humans in blaze (10, hyphened)
9 Raised amendment to excise volume, having greater volume (7)
10 Mobile home for monk? (4)
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