Each of the 22 across solutions, in clue order, contributes one unchecked letter to a two-word phrase (13,9) in Chambers 2011. This dictionary entry will enable solvers to highlight a potential victim (9,7) by (again) choosing some of the unchecked letters from fifteen across entries in the order they appear in the grid. The nine unclued lights are selected so their initial letters confirm this potential victim.
 

Across

 
6 Intoxication, at heart, admitted by ‘People like tequila’ (7)
11 Mathematician’s unit for the smallest degree (6)
14 Arkansas consumed by hobby favoured in St Andrews (5, apostrophised)
15 Thirty seconds presumably, or one below eighteen (5)
17 A swell is a dandy (6)
19 Seven slips with it is fine (9)
21 Specifically covering batting helmets (7, two words)
24 Please put in analyses for aerosols (9, hyphened)
26 Some refuse Spooner’s rail-fare apparently (9, hyphened)
29 He avoids dash and smells ‘orrible plants (7)
30 Balls spelling what king does (9)
32 A sheep worried a mounted soldier (6)
33 A lot of fish, perhaps, fluent at sea (6)
35 Embarrassed after erk landed (5)
36 Joely Richardson is somewhat emotive (5)
37 The jazz alters regularly – we can make you nap (7)
40 Doctor sensing colours (7)
 

Down

 
1 Ginn or gin etc? (7)
2 Dyer makes this dreadful noise (5)
3 Border about to dispatch Old (4)
4 Make these from wreckage of fast flier? (9, hyphened)
5 Declares America disunited? (6)
6 Sailors ignoring latitude damage ships (8)
7 Punctuation mark remains after full stop (6, two words)
9 Writer wearing e.g. Panama – I’ll have him for dinner! (8)
10 Growing business almost succeeded in tenders (7)
13 Fish after awfully ripe fruit, in part (8)
18 Grovel before Governor, like some thick screws? (10, hyphened)
20 Like many snakes, I’ve no mouse skinned (8)
23 Undivided attention required to swap wings over Bordeaux? (8)
25 Negotiated equal terms for all the money we need (8)
26 American artist posed amongst actors (7)
27 Women leaving small change containing pounds … or stones? (7)
29 Notice someone gutted – here? (6)
34 Is it to go on one’s head? (4)
 
A first prize of £30 for the first correct solution opened on 17 February. There are two runners-up prizes of £20 (or, for UK solvers, the latest edition of The Chambers Dictionary — ring the word ‘Dictionary’). Entries to: Crossword 2147, The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP. Please allow six weeks for prize delivery.