2658: Yackety-yack

The unclued lights (one of three words) are of a kind and can be verified in Brewer, whose spelling is used.

        Across

   1    Small horn from moulding left indoors (8)

   6    Love being in a home on the water (6)

11    Vauxhall model almost off course (5)

13    Cooked lamb, say, is particularly bad (7)

14    Settle on port, served around four o’clock, for starters (3,3)

16    An instrument that’s used for filling cracks (4)

17    Ancient Welsh poet translated litanies (8)

21    Complain about solo commuting cost-savers (3,5)

23    The most angelic of the old masters? (7)

25    Ages leading Essex or Nottinghamshire (3)

26    Address mentioned feature of churchyard (3)

29    Subtenant? (8)

34    Brunt’s involved with us radiating beams (8)

35    Back to the academy for a month (4)

36    Feel empathy for characters from Tralee (6)

38    Two days when young lad takes cannabis? The opposite (7)

41    Guest houses found on return from Carlisle to Helston (6)

42    Backed up that Edward’s the fool? (8)

         Down

   2    Where to cook the joint right away (4)

   3    Water nymph on moon of Neptune (6)

   5    Clientele endlessly excavated layer of mineral (8)

   6    Bowers in East London ports (7)

   7    Cotton thread one’s stowed in heart of galleon (5)

   8    Nursemaids accepting a ring for religious leaders (10)

15    Set aside extremely rare ring (6)

18    Coarse data about Californian city’s mire (10)

19    Emperor, perhaps, adds nothing after harmony (8)

22    Is stained badly, so disinfected (9)

24    Turns on triggers (8)

27    Poisonous gases at state loo (1-6)

30    Comes in for logs (6)

31    Whimsies of monarch annoy society (6)

33    Mount(ain) (5)

37    European dynasty is in France and Spain (4)

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