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This week’s crossword is cryptic. You may prefer to work on the interactive version. Click on this link, which takes you to the Crossword Compiler page – which is not technically supported by GenevaLunch.

Unclued lights, 14, 27, 21, 7, 25ac, 25d, 8, form a quotation which was first published in 7, 32. The name of its author and of another author who used it will appear in the completed grid.

Across

1 Parrying position in row over establishment (6)

4 Sedated Egyptian dancing girl held by diplomatic corps (6)

7 See preamble (3)

9 Minute life form is plunder caught by rodents (7)

11 Copy I’m not correctly seeing, having difficulty focusing (6)

14 See preamble (6)

16 A hotel page exchanges energy for acceleration and becomes a court runner (4-3)

18 Urge on royal collector of ova (5)

19 Arranges ordinals erroneously, losing fifty (7)

20 Move clumsily to hinder opening and closing of gate (5)

22 Poet, initially lacking weight, consumes food (4)

24 Returning, make sure of having favourite outdoor residences (6)

25 See preamble (6)

27 See preamble (4)

30 Broadcast paean leads to transient cessation of respiration (5)

31 Before music festival is over, leading performer gets the status of being acknowledged a celebrity (7)

33 Society for promoting racial equality returns two articles on leaders of current practices (5)

35 Reassembled elect in statistical rank (7)

37 Write music at A, B, C, D, F and G (6)

38 Ropes for tying up animals, including leaf and flower parts (6)

40 Sprinted faster than a monarch, to take precedence (7)

41 Strip plastic from device covering curtain rail to reveal wood (3)

42 After an exclamation of impatience, editor made loud, sharp noises (6)

43 On board ship very French to experience anxiety (6)

Down

1 Bury a Scottish grandchild, a high-spirited lass (6)

2 Work selling cloth (3)

3 About Eve’s origin and where she probably placed her offspring (4)

4 Scatty site redeveloped into sovereign societies consisting of single municipalities (4-6)

5 Animal of mixed breed selected from among related races (7)

6 All wishes but one fulfilled in this facetious property description? (3,3)

8 See preamble (4)

10 Gear set in working order (3)

12 Variable unit of metric land-measure once easily handled (4)

13 Judge’s instruction to prisoner to stoop to unworthy conduct? (10)

15 Youthful deity, a male, absorbs endless debt (4)

17 The French consuming a teetotal beverage (5)

21 See preamble (5)

23 Short fellow on upended old book bearing an orange substance from a tropical tree (7)

25 See preamble (6)

26 Wholly engrossed predator losing gold (4)

28 Lie about money with no end of opacity (4)

29 Uncle with expression of disgust in Africa disgorging food (6)

32 See preamble (4)

34 Remove one means of transport from company travelling in convoy, leaving another (3)

36 Trap enclosing western amphibian (4)

39 Preposition for each of US and UK heads of state (3)

Here is last week’s solution. The unclued lights were, of course, Swiss towns and cities.

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