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Another cryptic crossword this week. This link leads you to the interactive version on a Crossword Compiler page.

Each clue contains a misprint of one letter in the definition part of the clue. The correct letters, in clue order, spell out the words of a lady that will indicate the nature of the unclued lights. Her name and home appear in the completed grid. The New Penguin Dictionary of Quotations is recommended.

Across

1 Edible shorts as a rag US can take a bit of pleasure in (9)

7 Send back plans for unwelcome publicity sound in computer mailbox (4)

11 Loamier but not even sufficient ground for a grove (4)

12 Wetter results when both tan and ret rejected (6)

14 Sun demonstrated by heliotrope rate (7)

15 Initially an upper lagging deck – no longer a lid in the north (4)

16 Type of badge produced by artist in the afternoon (4)

17 Lurk to fish with bit of silk, pin and half a marine worm (7)

18 She dwellers of SE Asian Kingdom – Maratha isn’t their race but admits them (5)

20 Eric initially and two other boys expelled from Rome (7)

23 Sit up – upright, taking heart (3)

25 Encourages and gives some gallop (9)

29 Flawed leader of administration in the navy (3)

32 An act of notation or reversing lines (4)

33 Pressed and groomed with a comb (7)

34 Violently evict animal that produces muck (5)

36 In an ingenuous manner and strangely hesitantly – not she! (7)

38 Clumpy fellows, very large, round, active and loud (4)

40 Essential carts for shortened sporting activites (4)

41 Tinder in Central America also found in Spain (7)

42 Repel a meandering to change beck (6)

43 I carefully study mind of religious figure (4)

44 God who produces men for sex returning irritated (4)

Down

1 Float swirling at the vortex (5)

2 Anna begins internship and education in public relations (4)

3 Pub on trial – endless arrack and mixed gin! (7)

4 Bikes round morning within the limits of reserves (5)

5 New trap could be the scent of the diamond industry (7)

6 Turn and surpass one initially astonishing and imaginary ideal state (6)

8 Removers of superfluous ports and dud pilots circling river (7)

9 Blight of sad victim of first murder (4)

13 A chit I overturned in a system of self-defence from the past (3,3)

15 Italian wine losing life force – not in savour (4)

19 Dunce in speech or action (4)

24 I’m heard saying I will act (4)

25 Routine renovation will be boon before long (2,5)

26 Little chip starts spreading, initially hairline and penetrating around rim (6)

27 Name for two birds related to the linnet and a type of kite (7)

28 Like the common chore of endless examination with a dunderhead in charge (7)

30 Skirls of excited rats (4)

31 Half of army with bits of continental currency gets activity zine (6)

34 Welsh favourite that monarch loses is involved in Cymric orgies (5)

35 Two articles rearranged for a parson who held land by service (5)

37 Ruder manner including a bit of moodiness (4)

39 Points at which rats converge, turning up in a panic of flight (4)

Here is last week’s solution:

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