Nine unclued lights each contain a different 20 from the same source. The title suggests a further such 20. Elsewhere, ignore an accent.
Across
1 First off clochards rummaged Mac’s valises (8)
8 Eastern sailing boat or ship in poem declaimed (4)
12 Carnal caper giving sensuous diversion (10, two words)
13 Buffaloes perhaps or bulls heartless scholar trapped (6)
14 Abbot and priest get on well (7)
15 Trumpets of tribes besieging seaport (8)
18 Moulds American gum endures (9)
19 Jellyfish start to invade Ireland, Britain and Japan first (9)
21 Mere guesswork about mushrooms (4)
29 Nanny endlessly hugs large tree (4)
30 Myself and Fred stripped bare in pool (4)
32 Lord Chancellor keeps this weighty chain (9, two words)
34 Sort of painting painted April 29 (9, two words)
37 Annealer sick of swamp (8)
38 99 objects not all left boxed up (7)
39 Cows keeping close to compound (6)
40 Hung over having dined, being into the wine (10)
41 Group of pupils giving variable attention (4)
Down
2 Water pump’s funny drowning Jack (6)
3 Lass sailors get to know (5)
4 Paralegals riot flinging fruit (14, two words)
7 Frisky English nun getting livelier teaching nothing (14)
9 Camp served up authentic bread (4)
11 Jittery Sunday with European director going mad (6)
16 Flat round cake pa put away in chariot (5)
17 Publishers with advance for grandad (4)
22 Reptile lifts tail to move furtively (5)
23 Dud pager criminal promoted (8)
25 Are husbands OK? (4)
28 Lunatic in denial (7)
31 Church supports panache in project (6)
33 Innovative Anneka, the mother of invention (6)
35 Mummy raised domestic fowl and mina (5)
36 Large ungulate some Brazilian tamed? (4)
A first prize of £30 for the first correct solution opened on 3 November. There are two runners-up prizes of £20. (UK solvers can choose to receive the latest edition of the Chambers Dictionary instead of cash— ring the word ‘Dictionary’.) Entries to: Crossword 2184, The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP. Please allow six weeks for prize delivery.
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