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2532: Patchy?

issue 13 November 2021

The unclued lights (one of two words) can be arranged into two associated groups.

Across

1 Company accepts blame having mended harpsichord (7)

5 Pieces of cloth left in islands linked with Turks (7)

9 A jolt makes it open a little (4)

11 Mid-June physical is affected (9)

12 Check mutt beginning to bark (4)

14 Shadows and clouds initially moving from isles in the Clyde (6)

16 Carpet the setter after a fiddle (5)

17 Fabulist seen by river and waters ebbing (5)

20 Hot air rising from the room — with a bit of luck! (7)

21 Outlet for Hardy novel and other books (7)

24 Caviar-covered sea lettuce (7)

25 Finch or French canary or some passerine (5)

28 Guns in hen-house (7)

31 Soldiers secure old city (7)

34 Hard diamonds cut (7)

37 Uniform carried by those qualified (5)

38 Cool and distant, Garnett admitted two ducks! (5)

40 Extremely short, angular celebrity (4)

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