Unclued lights (including three of two words and two pairs) suggest various versions of a name given by a pair of successive clued lights which solvers must shade. Elsewhere, ignore an accent.
Across
12 Excited oxen pressing round me in poet’s garment (7)
13 Minotaur’s cross (3)
15 Believer in divine wisdom shows photo she shot (8)
17 Methuselahs could muster here, aged and eccentric (5)
18 Aviator Sully crosses Ireland endlessly (7)
21 Rescue blighted cactus (6)
24 Pope unrefined in speech (5)
27 Jack perhaps in jacket (5)
28 Fiddlesticks producing two notes (4)
29 Old rhino close to hen in farm (4)
30 Silver and bird get on together (5)
32 Artificial leg only Papa sports (5)
38 Fishes leaping the weirs (6)
41 Twice present in Utopia? (7)
42 Men with tent spending year going round county town (5)
43 Customer’s ten lilac shifts (8)
44 Water surrounding large fortified dwelling (4)
45 Idiot (brains left out) (3)
46 Poet’s appearance alienating institute (7)
47 Marine with new fishing-net (4)
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