2691: Very large fellow

The title wrote three unclued lights (one of two words) with the letter-count (3,8,6,4), whose members are the other unclued lights (two pairs, another of two words and a singleton). Solvers must highlight the singleton’s missing moniker hidden in the completed grid.

Across

11    Half the beans initially seem superfluous accompanying hot paste with chillis (7)

12    Seashore grass blowing back and forth (6)

14    Just a moment for A. Lloyd Webber’s collaborator (5)

16    Less convincing Debussy composition (2,3)

19    Poor actor’s part as expressed on picnic menu (3,4)

23    Leading academic’s endless nonsense on fish (7)

24    Raw sea-mist outside of hangar (4)

25    Figure runs home not quite ahead of coach (7)

30    President owns one hot motorbike (7)

31    Verse omitted from cover song (4)

32    Those with issues to deal with (7)

34    Further elements of primordial soup (4)

35    Termini re-designed for the time being (7)

40    Trembled having small stroke (5)

41    More attractive espalier reinstalled around top of hedge (9)

43    Like a gas, perhaps, one used as a weapon of war (7)

44    Take note before salutes overwhelm elite soldiers (5,6)

Down

2 Composer left a trifle (6)

3 It shows the spectrum in Capri smithy (5)

5 Isaac’s son represented in French art with gold base (4)

6 Restraining order from gas board (4)

7 Double-sided 25 in Sheffield theatre (7)

8 Food supplier putting Felix, possibly, before Rex? (7)

9 French standard rifle – ammo ordered (9)

10    True to life, fine and true (7)

15    Ship, possibly a drifter (5)

17    Most of the cash placed on 29’s hypothetical organism (7)

20    The French make clothes wet, it seems – here? (7)

22    Between high and low tidemarks – certainly, it’s said (9)

26    Blackbird from river and lake (5)

27    Match-maker? (7)

28    Act as an omen when poor Ben Stokes loses two bob (7)

33    Article found on board cruise ship following a straight path (6)

36    Head of government in control when in office? (5)

38    Slip top off in vaulted niche (4)

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