Seven unclued lights (all real words) are 36s minus one letter. A further 36 formed from the omitted letters will appear in the completed grid and must be shaded.
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1 Confederate creeshes wheels (8)
5 Poem (anonymous) involving ship in port (6)
9 Crooked creep with agent making profit (10)
16 Tinware company backed predator (6)
17 A new Troy with aged columns (5)
20 Bovine in old poem digs up underground stem (7)
24 Author noticed a probable 36 in Shakespeare (7)
25 Medical process still reducing sickness (5)
26 Some admit a layman translated Bible (5)
28 Language of goon pierced by short dagger (7)
31 Reformer from Zimbabwe at home wanting tissue (7)
33 Stars mingled in store (7)
37 Plant pruned behind (5)
38 Jade beginning to complain about plant (5)
39 US admiral in university in New Zealand (6)
41 Sad herald into what’s mournful (10)
42 Fellow cockney wall builder? (6)
43 By chance romping girl wins Oscar by miles (8)
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