The unclued lights (one of two words), individually or as a pair, are of a kind. Solvers are called upon to highlight another unclued light which forms three quarters of a clued solution.
Across
11 Scribbled notes recalling fine state (7)
12 Continue with drama with small jackets (6)
14 Starkey’s pair of spectacles? (5)
16 Isolated common (5)
19 Saucy Scottish lass with her flames (7)
21 Oil spilt round dish (4)
23 Organic compound having outstanding high quality (7)
25 Go out with me – it’s such vanity! (7)
30 Brush off finishing soup (7)
31 Birds caught away from rock hollows (4)
32 Great Italian novelist didn’t start his breakfast? (7)
34 French art during race trial (4)
35 Not any saints in island palace (7)
37 Pilot’s promotion could be risky speculation (5)
40 Impostors promise most of the money (5)
41 Theatre parking by station with domestic (9)
43 Extinct Native American tribe would measure cereal inside (7)
44 Agree it’s CI2I, we say
(11, four words)
Down
1 Abolish restrictions on race money taken by degrees, unusually (11)
2 Sheep remains above retreat (6)
3 Delay engine cutting out (5)
5 Black cuckoos disappear inside (4)
6 Sailing boat engine’s knocking noise is perfect (4)
7 Bric-à-brac is here and so forth (7)
8 Hair-dresser on the fiddle? (7)
10 Dialect churchman first chooses to be disregarded (7)
15 Philosopher regularly seen on pillar too (5)
17 Organ rebuilt close to capital (7)
18 Treasons lay in tatters, if accorded this? (11, two words)
22 Warning given to horse manoeuvres on coastal tract (9)
26 This drug that’s a fuss in Luss (5)
27 Deliveries of the French at end of June still unpaid for (7)
29 Cloth pedlar turned out with prize (7)
39 Hail starting after holidaying on Yell (4)
A first prize of £30 for the first correct solution opened on 13 August.

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