2525: Prime Times

Elements of four symmetrically disposed unclued lights confirm the 5 Down. Enumerations indicate lengths of clues’ ‘full’ solutions.

Across

1 People are pruning every European tree (6)

6 Cook cut gooey rock cake (7)

11 Bishop leaving foundation unaltered (4, two words)

12 Skywriting? (9, two words)

14 Radical Left holds back boy (5)

15 Distort lower grades by class (6)

16 One very leggy girl weed picked up (9)

19 Obtain unlimited happiness (6)

21 Senseless how love ends (5)

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22 Baby’s back, bound for Glasgow (4)

24 Harbours shelled on a key date (6)

25 Return right away for departure (6)

31 Ditch outcome of good joke? (4, hyphened)

33 Bill ducks ban (5)

34 Sustain successes, always on time (6)

35 Two birds bolt inside corny old location? (9, two words)

36 Extremely uneven revenue not split (6)

37 Active thrashing (5)

38 Cast to one side, here? (9, two words)

39 Hang object on end of strip (4)

40 Transmission system in platelet examined (7)

41 More than one person starts to delay golf (6)

Down

1 Bribed by film award — or not? (6)

2 Mechanical/electrical cycling record (11)

3 Without it, impolitic to reform London area (7)

4 Busy person, one soon penning English poem about British obsession (16, five words)

7 Firm to bite, e.g.