Two contrasting film stars allegedly said ‘1A’ (five words) and ‘49/27’ (six words in total). Remaining unclued lights (including one of three words and two pairs) give the birthplace of one and the place where the other died and the titles of two films in which they starred. Solvers must shade the two clued lights that give their surnames. Fifteen special clues include a definition and a hidden letter mixture of the light. Ignore two apostrophes and two accents.
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9 Chloe’s black hat (4)
11 Watt once sounded clearly ill (5)
12 Dunes being sandy (3)
14 Muddy bairns shower (4)
15 Lawmakers dined on Asian bread (6)
16 Flower wooden sword deadheaded (5)
17 Dress on Victoria’s dustman (5)
20 Dozen outlaws freed (4)
21 Bow before Macron (4)
22 Judge seemed fair (4)
25 Eliminate habit of Laurencin rudely blanking Curie (7)
26 Colleens squashing 200 insects (5)
28 French painter redecorated deficiently (5)
34 Spit seeped out (4)
36 Plant from Albania (4)
37 Papa visited Nantes (4)
40 Former VP maybe with ex-president in uniform (5)
42 Visitor thought aloud (5)
44 Crimson bird no longer crosses glen (6)
45 Review set point (4)
46 Win or lose (3)
47 Something of value Tracy rejected (5)
48 Stuff pharmacy sold (4)
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