The unclued entries comprise two authors and a work of fiction, attributed by one author to the other. Each author occupies two unclued entries. Four of the unclued entries are two words each.
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1 Tea service that needs to be done again for villa (6)
7 Remote republic gets peace from Spain back (6)
13 Automated assistant hailed – they’re high (5)
16 Crazy French soul gets title there (6)
20 Repelling germ, throws away rubbish (7)
21 Shiny metal wheels covering start of trip (6)
22 Neither alternative accepted by Russian denial (3,3)
24 Undertaker perhaps fixing marble around this person (8)
26 Security agent (4)
27 It’s deadly, and so soft (3)
28 In Parliament House, termination is hard (3)
29 Gas poles, constituents of battery? (4)
32 Lily’s family member is one on a trip (3,5)
34 Generous people get name etched in entrances (6)
37 Most kindred are found in the home (7)
39 Mentally defeat minor planet (6)
42 Sailor overcoming armed force with science – here? (9)
43 Feet with which I may come out? (5)
44 Form in which right believers might abandon metre ultimately (4,5)
46 Threaten king and queen, say, with something that can beat them (6)
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