The unclued lights (one of three words and two of two words), individually and one pair, can be verified in conjunction with the same headword in Brewer.
Across
10 Where to find H or C readily available (2,3)
11 Rashford without minute deposit on the cornea (5)
13 Gold miners circling Lochnagar, say (5)
14 Pants, but is not exerting oneself (6)
15 Negative report – one from Arab, for one (5)
16 Tarzan – he is out of place with Scottish hard rock band (8)
19 Deems appropriate for witnesses to attack (4,3)
21 Famed wicket-keeper-batsman in team – Essex? (4)
23 Wild beast has regular date in March (4)
24 Princess has limits to awful temper (6)
26 Sediment from three metals (6)
29 Take home catch ahead of time (4)
31 Anti-nuclear treaty prompts no action from Lord’s, say (4,3)
32 Set rebuilt around eco-atoll (9)
36 Intermittently hare-brained poetic visionary (5)
37 Swift traveller around Mull, mid-week (6)
40 Fabric – some linen? – on inventory rejected (5)
41 Afternoon tea fare at the Palace (5)
42 Student of rock and roll artist – Steffi, we hear, in the lead (14)
Down
2 Four or five, say, splitting place in tomb (7)
3 Guffaws from folk who are good fun away from home and flashy (6,3,4)
4 Bloody superb! (4)
5 Month with birds in groups of eight (7)
6 Mull, say – isn’t water, but this (6)
7 Doctors’ shoestrings (5)
8 Parkhouse houses boat (3)
9 Blends well, but becomes entangled (6)
12 Lowest point from Armenian chart (7,6)
18 Irish missionary – top judo expert? (5)
20 Attendant bidding farewell to model? (5)
25 Small sand eel, it seems, or other marine animal (8)
27 Bending over and demonstrating, hiding head (7)
29 Peers with coins worth 6s 8d (6)
30 Eloquent and well-off, without a female in the lead (6)
33 Alternatively, sea in France reveals abalone (5)
35 6 seen from south an ordinary one (4)
38 Amphibian with feet under earth (3)
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