The unclued lights (one of two words, one of which is an abbreviation) are of kind and between them go back to number 1. Elsewhere, ignore an accent.
Across
3 Simple meal obtained from shady dung pit (12, two words)
10 To hear’s what is involved here (7)
11 Former student adapting usual start and finish to Milton (7)
13 Armstrong, say – singular fast bowler (8)
16 Regularly toddle down to theatre (5)
18 Impress priest and state time (5)
19 Hopeless endeavour of miserable fellow nursing wild cats (9, two words)
24 Carp about new gear brought back for craft (7)
25 Rank around gallery (4)
26 1970s Bishop of London lives in the former “capital of Buchan” (7)
28 Popular teams’ organs (7)
32 Support the others during latter half of battle (7)
33 Card opponents with date in cottage room (3)
35 French boy admitting reserve Lotus’s finally without fuel (9)
37 Group that’s required by flower arrangers (5)
39 Sense-organs throbbed – not half (5)
40 Means of transport to triage, apparently (8)
43 Providing joint backing, company soon changes during season (12)
Down
1 Friar – one subject to mystical contemplation, once (12)
2 Just one for distribution – but if more than one, could be thousand (7)
5 Sheet from the best – the very best – lecturer (7)
6 Intimate Scottish crowd (4)
8 Dash out of country for currency (5, hyphened)
9 Boring fellows from Drumhill turned up (7)
12 French ladies made off during play (8)
14 Sound of the solver’s sheep (3)
15 Crumpled T-shirts — a gift seen initially (12, three words)
17 Tract of land with piece of timber cut by Brussels? (7)
20 Protection for child entering, having slipped (7, two words)
21 Strange dialects at meeting halls (8)
23 Money from Tom’s niece (9)
29 English pundit dropped hot fish (7)
31 Dubious American appearing in over half this magazine (7)
34 Sweet liquid stickler served up, endlessly (5)
36 Wooden stave – one from wreckage? (5)
38 Unfledged bird in valley – a sparrowhawk? (4)
A first prize of £30 for the first correct solution opened on 15 October. There are two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word ‘Dictionary’). Entries to: Crossword 2082, The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP. Please allow six weeks for prize delivery.
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