The same word appears as seven headwords in Chambers. Unclued lights (including two pairs and one of three words, one of two) indicate the meaning of six of them. The word (4) will appear in the completed grid and must be shaded.
Across
9 Half-dead ryot’s thirsty (4)
11 Fit PM adopts Latin not a little (10)
14 Tiring trek from Jamaica by cat less ordinary (6)
17 Very laid back mature Amerind (5)
18 Discoloured hat shared by half a dozen (5)
20 Japanese art school, one following old watercolourist (7)
21 Let outside, Paul (not inside) limped (7)
23 Movement Jack Sprat embraces (7)
25 Lady C cycling, no longer clothed (5)
27 Woman pinches my underwear to get gorgeous for poet (7)
30 Elsie’s developed special plants (7)
32 Round fool is fat (7)
36 Horsefeathers on chestnut bird? (5)
37 Swinger pulls lecturers in French uni (5)
38 Water aged fruit tree (6)
39 Temple mirrored Australian tree (4)
40 Damp regulator in classy skirt is tense wearing sou’wester? (10)
41 Excoriated poet’s language (4)
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