The unclued entries comprise two authors and a work of fiction, attributed by one author to the other. Each author occupies two unclued entries. Four of the unclued entries are two words each.

 

Across

1 Tea service that needs to be done again for villa (6)

7 Remote republic gets peace from Spain back (6)

13 Automated assistant hailed – they’re high (5)

16 Crazy French soul gets title there (6)

20 Repelling germ, throws away rubbish (7)

21 Shiny metal wheels covering start of trip (6)

22 Neither alternative accepted by Russian denial (3,3)

24 Undertaker perhaps fixing marble around this person (8)

26 Security agent (4)

27 It’s deadly, and so soft (3)

28 In Parliament House, termination is hard (3)

29 Gas poles, constituents of battery? (4)

32 Lily’s family member is one on a trip (3,5)

34 Generous people get name etched in entrances (6)

37 Most kindred are found in the home (7)

39 Mentally defeat minor planet (6)

42 Sailor overcoming armed force with science – here? (9)

43 Feet with which I may come out? (5)

44 Form in which right believers might abandon metre ultimately (4,5)

46 Threaten king and queen, say, with something that can beat them (6)

 

Down

1 Goose nipped in the bud (4)

2 Spell since noon provides one with six boundaries (7)

3 Surrounded by pyramids, to some extent (4)

4 Nut-brown additive (1-6)

5 Being cutesy in between essays (8)

6 Matisse’s movement’s not united in suffering due to problems with cells (6)

8 A part of (holy) land (4)

9 First to eat bison, say, at the attached end (8)

10 Revolutionary, after monarch went wrong (5)

11 King and president wrestled with feverish problem (10)

17 Knock out presumptuous and fabulous home-help (6)

18 Duck, or fly from 26A movie (9)

19 Pianist etc playing without emotion (10)

23 Explosive mis-spelling this evening? (6)

25 Butler’s base desire to hug German man (8)

26 Bishop finding three feet in cemetery (8)

33 Ass cut head off herb pulled up (6)

36 Bucolic river, one that names a mountain range (5)

38 Almost catch tail of dark lord (4)

40 Association football’s finally dumped a nation (4)

41 Seconds of fencing opponent decided weapon – this? (4)

 

A first prize of £30 for the first correct solution opened on 12 September. There are two runners-up prizes of £20. Please scan or photograph entries and email them (including the crossword number in the subject field) to crosswords@spectator.co.uk or post to: Crossword 2570 at The Spectator.

 

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