2694: Arc lights

The unclued lights, including a pair and six of two words, form an association which a normal entry clearly suggests.

Across

11    Icons reconstructed with excellent backing and capital (7)

12    Scottish author wants hedge trimmed at one end (6)

13    Scottish bird sports new supporting items on the way in (9)

14    Falls off outhouses (5)

16    Scots flower just missed bronze, say (5)

19    Women’s lib regretted holding back some rodents (7)

21    Tapir from borders of different length in Antarctica (4)

23    College’s leading academician entered elaborately robed in fabric (7)

24    Does she give you the eye, to some extent? (4)

25    City in Campania – not Orléans (7)

30    Main part of the course which allows entry to Yale (7)

31    Barriers regularly holding Olympian (4)

32    Change of heart in secret for this archbishop (7)

34    Douglas King having trouble (4)

35    Maiden leaves washday workers for riverside sportsmen (7)

37    Head of Britain at one time (5)

40    English composer among the staff in Zimbabwe (5)

42    Senseless to trap small bats (6)

43    Dried up waters are a zone around half of French region (4,3)

Down

3 Look through scrub (5)

5 Online agent gets notice (4)

6 Order of redundancies of camping equipment (4)

7 Ridiculous country seat (7)

8 Food and drink from France, spiked with ecstasy (7)

10    Came up with quote that’s long, having a vivid memory (7)

15    Parts of July and August for Turkish governor at Rievaulx, say (5)

18    Sweet granules around car seat and rugs (6,5)

20    Finally in this marathon? (4,3)

26    The Claw – topped and tailed maybe (5)

27    Travelling through such as very heavy rain? (7)

28    Name a soft extremity (7)

29    Paving stone for earthenware vessel (7)

33    Two kings expert with money for the Tivoli Gardens (6)

36    Girl is taken in to Helen’s heart (5)

38    Scottish metal and carbon removed from mountain stones (4)

39    Tin and silver catch (4)

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