Eight unclued lights (four of two words) are of a kind.
Across
1 False prophet faces interjection, perhaps (12, three words)
10 Old soldier heartily opposes Prohibition (4)
12 Women perorate furiously about Welsh sustainable energy source (10, two words)
14 Spell first half of ‘exhume’ wrong (3)
15 Person rebuking extremely restive demonstrator (8)
19 Porky pianist regularly stays in bed (6, hyphened)
22 Such fish are briefly making comeback in channels (6)
24 Onions’ relative originally eaten on knife (5)
27 Playing reggae on street, daughter moved unsteadily (9)
29 Chauvinist dictator’s spirit and energy (5)
31 Mother of singer Grace Jones finally entering Assam? (6)
34 Oddly ignoring Indian at these intervals (6)
36 Slander most of former students in outskirts of Crawley (7)
38 Bank wound up, losing face (5)
39 Belief system of area around Long Island (8)
40 Lenin with no new money for Romanians (3)
41 Ointments senile lot applied around beginning of May (10)
43 Sign NHS is yet evolving and amalgamating (12)
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