Ten unclued lights (one of two words) form a group (two single words, two of two words and two of three words with one word doing double duty). The eleventh unclued light was responsible for the others.

Across

    1  Unclued light (10)

    7  Unclued light (3)

    9  A religious leader keeping old company and clipping the ends of words (7)

  11  British (English) deli mixed substance that can be eaten (6)

  12  Unclued light (5)

  13  Teenager transformed into turncoat (8)

  14  Swan feather (3)

  15  Unclued light (9)

  17  Unclued light (11)

  21  In the past grievous US tractor magnate (5)

  23  One kid’s tattered soft leather (7)

  26  Unclued light (9,4)

  28  I have been told it’s European spaces (7, 2 words)

  29  Shelter first class hog rat (5)

  31  A deacon gets quite different collections of short tales (11)

  34  Shells unfortunately fluster us (9)

  38  Put back notes (3)

  39  Unusual combat op in recruit training centre (8, 2 words)

  40  Exclamation of surprise – a myth put another way (5, 2 words)

  41  Sufficiently English name of unknown German husband (6)

  42  Meat dish lab returned in time (7)

  43  Mythical Himalayan creature with tail chopped besides (3)

  44  Unclued light (10)

Down

    1  Seized and took a casual sleep (6)

    2  Poet’s rumble in guts of gastro intestines (4)

    3  Fantastic hero – one who does the weeding (4)

    4  After personal assistant returns, brief research (5)

    5  Charge nurse wrapping knee (4)

    6  One girl converted into star (5)

    7  Nomogram carried back in a US shopping bag (4)

    8  Active, abounding with offspring, beginning with daughter rather than son (5)

  10  Warm up in advance a one time favourite, holding her back (7)

  15  Essentially bluish grey (5)

  16  No longer used, lost heart and stopped working (4)

  17  Unclued light (5)

  18  Mid month before the end of August, that is (5, 2 words)

  19  American fellow lines cotton seed (4)

  20  One task creating tie-died fabrics (5)

  22  See! I’m inside a large car (4)

  24  Special areas of land in Orkney, not right old marshy spots (5)

  25  One island alder, running wild, belonging to a family of plants (7)

  27  US law officers fostered sleaze primarily (4)

  30  Unclued light (6)

  31  Unclued light (5)

  32  Manner of fashioning regular quips for US joker (5, hyphen)

  33  At most in Italy, confusion of Pauli or Paul I (5, 2 words)

  35  Support foundation (4)

  36  Goat-like animal, a backward rodent possessing head of a hamster (4)

  37  Unclued light (4)

  38  Asian from Haiti endlessly in confusion (4)

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