Nine unclued lights form three triplets, each related in a different way to the tenth.
Across
1 Cartoonist has formerly captivated Spain (5)
10 Swayed and quit, sick in the stomach (10)
14 Handles fine fish (5)
15 Have a few days at skate park (5)
16 As support, use skinny leg (4,2)
20 Dancer for one popular in scarlet always (8)
21 A lamb chop? (7)
22 Former army head smokes (4)
25 Coal say in chimney left to the end (4)
29 Manage what deli may supply (4,4)
33 Sea having a unifying motif (6)
34 Teenager cleaned out in pathetic fiddle (5)
35 Transport apparently good army sections (5)
36 May shortly point out a high platform (7)
37 A case in Finland progressively diminished (6)
39 Symbolic ribbons with shore-bird fancier’s motto? (4-5)
40 Inhale drug, setting note in type (5)
Down
2 Escaped, not at first deceived (6)
3 Skill in story books (6)
4 Having made comparison, prefer Edward (7)
5 One singing about lake bird? Not so fast! (10)
6 Cutting one cactus into bits (7)
7 Go mad as result of committing serious foul? (3,3)
8 Greek goddesses in Ireland? It is so (7)
9 Resentment heard from private soldier (6)
15 Man ran out of adrenalin, collapsing (6)
17 Live by a church, the principal side facing the sea (5-5)
18 In worst cases a failure to turn up after exercise (7)
19 Watched short film about sheep (6)
23 Sharp change of direction for extreme socialist (4,4)
24 Beaten up, gets a work-over, from them? (7)
28 A wicket falling, what fixes where bowlers may rest (7)
29 Gloomy doctrine boy grows up to accept (6)
30 Behold a born debtor (6)
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