The subsidiary indications in some clues ignore certain letters. These letters form the KEY EXPRESSION: two features in the grid and almost a third (the completion of which is – and should be kept visible but not shaded). These squares should be fully shaded in. What they form is given by the correct form of single letter misprints in the definitions in other clues.
ACROSS
1 Transaction around market caught would-be know-all (9, 2 words)
13 Bounder heading off admirers, producing presents? (7)
14 Single nameless plant genus (4)
15 Keep favouring invalid service after a little time (7)
16 Contend without sinking – and that’s a fact (6)
17 Old stringed instrument’s funny, offering no hint of sound (7)
18 Priest, Catholic, seen around American place, sent to many people (8)
20 Deck sport held over (5)
22 Hurt, without power? Sprained a joint (4)
24 Ethiopian baboon twisted a limb (6)
26 Problem: one’s taking pot (6)
30 Count domestic animals upon return (4)
32 Little right to return and start again (5)
33 Fuse, glowing item, leads to some colossal explosion (8)
34 Man plus exercises – that’ll get him brawn! (3-4)
36 Drink, or the effects of drink? (6)
39 Flan area: that has right look in pastry dish (7)
40 Staff close to home went by horse (4)
41 Duettist having final part in Rigoletto? (7)
42 Evangelical sent Jains into a frenzy (9)
DOWN
1 Searcher through rubbish, namely one getting own back (9)
2 Daytime performance – this writer frames a point (7)
3 Sums up advantage provided by surgeon (4)
4 Recompenses soldiers taken by Francophone country (6)
5 Hunt a reduced form of bikini (4)
6 Jellyfish is under a coiled lure (8)
7 English promise to pay, raising frenzied try (4)
8 Vehicle seen with working copy (6)
9 It is a curious opening to column, offering abusive humour (7)
10 Strangely shaped balls’ line indicating rugby team (9, 2 words)
11 Soot surrounds ends of the total internal cavity (6)
12 Fair charge for services – about time (4)
17 Last comment on blouse, say, of untearable fabric? (7)
19 Architectural structure dangerously laden (9)
21 Energy supplied by a drug in West Indian dish (9, 2 words)
23 Women supporting outcome of brewing competition? (8, 2 words)
25 One amongst studies worried: false information leading to ruin (7)
27 Releases CS round rioting (7)
28 Uranium runs into gas cell of specialised nature (6)
29 Elevated chats about a King’s independence (6)
31 German to continue reproof? (6)
34 Nimble one avoiding water-sprinkler (4)
35 Carbon in the end held up mineral (4)
37 Reserve shot to tempt opponent (4)
38 Hand-held computer device, one having ancient coil (4)
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