The unclued lights have an award-winning feature in common.
Across
5 Webcam perhaps covering temporary accommodation (6)
10 With Head absent, our teachers brewed liqueur (10)
12 Start to grumble and show contempt, returning cabbage and sprouts (6)
16 Virginia starts to gripe about loss of nerve (5)
17 French film-maker returns in time to shake things up (7)
20 Views wild rhinos surrounding empty zoo (8)
25 Women’s popular victory (3)
26 Hero sat awkwardly in proximity (7)
28 Can start to see city in outline (7)
29 Hail one empty vehicle (3)
31 Run profit-making facility for outside users (8)
34 Distinctive qualities of musical about revolutionary (7)
36 Stretched out and gently massaged around top of hamstrings (7)
39 I make a claim over small matter (5)
40 Hey! Start to lower yearly interest – it’s necessary for some artists (3,5)
41 Film a story with new section (6)
42 Use old slang in New York area (4,6)
Down
1 Show surprising gains on left (6)
2 Sunbathe at resort hosting Noel Coward and Harold Pinter? (8)
3 Tumbled quartzes, without question fake (6)
4 Endless to-do over small whisky measures (5)
6 Car starts to accelerate up to Oldham (4)
7 Mixes palette, then joins in a few events (11)
8 Changed gear, covering up hem (4)
11 Fool moved in, getting approvals (7)
14 Puts in stitches, we hear (4)
15 It’s reported I have a place in Scotland (4)
16 Victor and I look over eccentric colonel’s instrument (11)
19 Virginia creeper covers particular area (4)
21 Stone axes in use formerly (4)
22 Ordered and can, at last, tuck in (4)
25 Are living in the past? (4)
27 Confident genius creatively absorbing article (8)
30 Angel Delight, perhaps with fruit (4)
31 First pieces of embroidery tidied up in sewing case (4)
32 Teresa leaves sandwiches for marketing again (6)
33 Goodness! Nothing wrong in protein (6)
35 Could be a boom in martinis on ice! (5)
37 Look to the audience for support (4)
38 Weather reporter is self-important sounding (4)
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