Seven 1D lights are unclued.
Across
1 Carnivore longing to enter Gordon’s dining room (5)
6 Female musical figure is King’s deputy (7)
11 Constancy of a husband from this place in Bow? (10)
13 Sapless sex maniac peppered couscous? Not so (9)
16 Poem from Turkey Eliot translated (7)
17 Dutch uncle in Australia starts to condemn sailing boats (7)
19 Syrup in pail wicked with éclair (10)
21 Fragrant oil brought round for Jack (5)
24 Noble paragon ignores papa (4)
28 Minister’s aide backing proper poseur (5)
30 Unknown hideous Renoirs empty awful old galleries (10, hyphened)
33 Wickedness in Land of Lincoln (3)
36 Distinctive form of square poncho? (7)
37 Proceedings in court blocking anonymous article (4)
39 Toping aunt reformed under threat of death (10, two words)
40 Greensand (not grey) coloured London area (7)
41 Protozoa annoy bluebottle (5)
Down
2 Records fail to mention base mineral (8)
3 Perhaps Zulus swimming twice topped penguins (6)
4 Crock cruises with aged baggage not stored below? (9, hyphened)
6 Coarser soil on Tasmanian mountains (8)
7 Some existential beings (5)
8 Society shunned unmarried novelist’s friend (5)
9 Mrs Mopp used these suds and thereafter polished (14, two words)
10 Old mate bearing brown beer (6)
14 Fine china includes special ornamental cups (6)
20 Gale-driven at sea — no end of hard beating to windward (9)
22 They make waves when idiots get a hearing (6)
23 Nucleus of biblical book not half gloomy (8)
25 Companion meets Conservative in chapel (8)
26 Pub hiring outside singer (6)
29 Expose one local Lothario (6)
31 Maybe Dürer and the rest snubbed the rabble (6)
32 Trees a sudden blast knocked over (5)
34 Dramatist’s glade is under grass for audience (5)
35 Ecce stannum!? (5)
A first prize of £30 for the first correct solution opened on 19 November. 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 2087,
The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP. Please allow six weeks for prize delivery.
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