The unclued lights (two of three and one of two words), when preceded by the same word which solvers must include along with their completed grid, can be verified in Brewer.
Across
9 Small cafe spoken of in ski-lift (4, hyphened)
11 Computer functions ’til a server crashes (10)
16 Mature writer backed Ireland first (5)
17 It’s cold, but hot when one is there! (5)
20 Art isn’t moving knight (7)
21 100% cure rate with great valerian (7)
24 Dazzling light upset Elgar (5)
25 Nets from fleet in rough sea (5)
27 Huddle in a photo (7, two words)
30 Copper’s most appalling habits (7)
32 Seat of extreme Arab state (7)
36 Relative is an opener in Paris (5)
37 It happened during 1917 (5)
38 Athletes run into Roman soldier (6)
39 Dot’s partner remains after date (4)
40 Sailor is fitting in, embraced by worker for Protestant sect (10)
41 Pole is nuts (4)
Down
2 Files of small fruit (5)
3 Love shooting practice here in the Principality (6)
4 Laths fashioned in foreign alloy (5)
5 Judge reviewing top spacecraft (7)
6 Gull with fish, crying feebly (7)
7 Valuable possession artist’s given to charity without honour (6)
8 Obsequious associates possibly seen 1D (9)
10 Types of diamonds (10)
13 Casual son. Dickens character loses it (7)
15 Complete month free (8)
19 Letter butcher’s opening requires single portion of leg (8)
22 Was arrogant and bogus (7)
28 Magazine has cutting articles (7)
29 Street party upset camp (6)
31 Small butterfly’s cocoon (6)
33 Such hair pleases in Paris (5)
34 Winehouse hit — record explaining her addictive behaviour, for starters (5)
35 Bounces up and down (5)
A first prize of £30 for the first correct solution opened on 10 June. 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 2114, The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP. Please allow six weeks for prize delivery.
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