The unclued lights share a common feature, while two trios from among the clued Down solutions do so to a lesser extent. Ignore an acute accent.
Across
1 Give confidence when not at sea, reportedly (6)
7 Tolerated, having cut through undergrowth and fouled (6)
13 River horse, so to speak (5)
16 County not right accepting vice inspection (6)
21 This girl lost her head during nuclear power plant disaster (6)
22 Variety of sandstone produces vintage Merlot, say (3,3)
24 Tinted visor certainly owned during middle of week (8)
26 High point is getting married in a church (4)
27 Ballpoint brand with blue ink cap, for starters (3)
28 Grass turned over in the Chinese way (3)
29 Rowdy Aussie party at arbour, now and again on time (4)
35 French forces Doc into 8 (6)
37 I go nuts arranging day trips (7)
39 Are sections of bone found here in Italy? (6)
43 Salvo possible but not rounds (5)
46 Take in Sartre novel (6)
Down
1 Fliers at the very heart of the parody (4)
2 Developments as the briny calms down, we hear (7)
3 Insinuation that Sri Lanka upset Richards, for starters (4)
4 Fails to keep a promise – at bridge? (7)
5 32 spilt drinks here at county show (4)
6 Some pray elsewhere, upsetting church founder (6)
8 Barriers regularly holding Olympian (4)
9 Two chancellors take to one vegetable (8)
10 You grab people, turning up hostile (5)
17 One that’s cold to walk over (3,3)
19 Left large hound at site of steelworks (4,6)
23 Difficult times in nameless township in NW Sutherland (6)
25 Mathematical principles for dealing with fumarole (8)
26 Use paper crumpled in France to a certain extent (1,3,4)
30 Mac’s salmon spear removed half the dace from county town (7)
31 Abbey’s wild geese oddly missing, as well (7)
33 Why one may have had a dry old Christmas (6)
36 Female bird in here, eventually (5)
38 Opening of motet points to lyre’s middle string (4)
40 Pipe carrying water to sides of hothouse (4)
41 It borders this little land and former ferry point across the Severn (4)
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