Solvers may find it helpful to Mix and Match the 12 unclued entries.
Across
12 Wild West films rate so badly (6)
13 Head over after a 1960s/70s space programme (6)
14 Nucleus of eruption in jail occupying volunteer officers at first (7)
17 Shed set back on eastern end of The Oval (7)
18 Good line from centre dropping one classical reference (6)
21 Danced on light display, swallowing ecstasy (6)
22 Pulling off and on skinned part of a bone (5)
23 Mysteriously, Turkish currency backing European unknown banks (6)
25 Cut down crime outside Ecuador’s capital (4)
30 Aniseed drink barely equates to another (4)
31 What Britain had in anarchic Crimea (6)
33 Branch of army company unit quantifying revolutionary progress? (5)
36 Fully endured potential restriction on weekend date? (3,3)
41 Filipino cordilleran folk in Rio got lost (6)
42 Out-of-bounds mescaline damaged paired muscles (7)
44 Vehicle carrying mean petty objector in US (7)
45 Body of people swimming to France? No thanks (6)
46 Amazing United against northern Spanish team (6)
Down
2 Eternal lover I flogged, ending in heartache (6)
4 Worried 40D left regarding division of Man? (6)
5 Assess dated opinion on the radio (5)
6 Regularly depleted fission rod along which pressure is constant (6)
7 Butter up first of girls wearing skirt (6)
8 Quite long sport clips (7)
9 Suppressing, say, cover in parts (7)
16 Periodically, forum really is a source of poison (6)
20 Surrounded, Daisy’s partner is picked up (4)
24 Separate and remove old legion abroad (6)
26 Island offering some boggier climbing (4)
28 Orange-red dye scrawled onto art (7)
29 What about priest acting in border tribe of Israel (7)
34 UK aircraft makers checking metal fabric (6)
35 Severity of activity following change at the top (6)
37 The Oldie ably selecting odd bits from a cluster of cases? (6)
38 Sea urchin’s bottom rough, covered by American lichens (6)
40 Mites found in unopened pasta? That’s not on (5)
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