2509: Current description

A six-word ‘current description’ (in ODQ) and the name of the author (three words) run clockwise round the perimeter starting in the top left-hand corner. Four other unclued lights are of a kind, and solvers must highlight the one suggested by the quotation.

Across

11 Deposit with variable returns for figure (4)

12 Silly money to pen note (6)

15 Might they strip down parole? It’s wrong (9)

16 French town evicting southern lover (5)

18 Everyone around emperor is a plainsman (7)

19 Drinking most ale, not initially most rum (7)

20 Half-heartedly shake back joint (5)

21 Spaniard cross with a German figure (6)

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Rupert Darwall

Labour has walked into a net-zero trap of its own making

26 Game with ball, Scot’s ball to continue going left (7)

28 Pinched tin piled high in the East End (7)

29 Pair of Arabs with special Moroccan trees (5)

31 Counters in taxi put back in capital (5)

33 Dissenter at this point quoted the wrong way (7)

38 Small bear marked on the skin (6)

39 Secretarial work one abandons for romance (5)

40 American poorly blocks old weak barrage (9)

41 Danish jester’s releasing right hunting cry (6)

42 Some heat, but not hot period (4)

Down

2 The Spanish in terror with fast driver (9)

3 Pound loaned for Roosevelt? (6)

4 Stride around across a road to get fireworks (7)

5 Riding bovid into one vehicle showing rust? (9, two words)

6 Run group of soldiers that is noisy in Glasgow (5)

7 Taller German city about to have debts (8)

8 Nearer Delhi, the royal houses (6)

10 Artist’s aim: cube must be redesigned (7)

13 South American place to the north on island (4)

14 Help me...