The same word appears as eight headwords in Chambers. Unclued lights indicate what they mean. The word will appear in the completed grid and must be shaded.
Across
10 German town invited Newton twice (5-5)
11 Smart monarch nailing the ceremony (6)
12 Granny’s wonderful honey (3,4)
14 Yes, grandparent’s about to be of use (5)
15 Small valleys breaking up Andes (5)
16 Anchorite tumbling out of cot gets rupture (6)
22 Medicine giving tiny tot fresh start (8)
23 Scotsman and German build platforms (7)
26 Some tanker offloads oil in Perth (4)
28 Having fixed appointment, two cardinals keep united (7)
30 Feminine fiend cast off sin (3-5)
34 Crew member in anchorage in Spain (6)
36 Woman with liberal air (5)
37 Frothy half of beer May brewed (5)
38 Godless type is in crime (7)
39 Are people nearly lost in Levantine city? (6)
40 Vain hero wrestling with an anti-Jacobite (10)
Down
1 Doctrine determined by 200 working imams (10)
2 Woman, old, charged with energy (5)
3 Worrying cockney’s getting fiery (6)
4 Plant almost absolutely fruitless (7)
5 Dated fashion of French fan (not English version) (6)
6 Vexing Heather dogs local lass (7)
7 Magistrates squashing the foreign insects (5)
8 Chapels serving tea and shots (9)
9 Puts up with no barrel organs (4)
13 Crazed or crazy? (7)
18 Gallop faster than man tired out (7)
19 Tatty Eben looked for sewing kit (6-4)
20 Spa no-good dumping us where rubber ducks swim (9)
21 Stockade in South Africa hampered bear (6)
27 Broadcast after broadcast concerning Peppa? (7)
29 Reserve of wild krameria I uprooted (7)
31 Bummer footwear (6)
32 Walk like warden outside? (6)
33 Crowd mobs English rock band (5)
35 Winning score, one with pianos playing (5)
36 See flying saucer cut and run (4)
A first prize of £30 for the first correct solution opened on 7 November. 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 2578, The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP. Please allow six weeks for prize delivery. The dictionary prize is not available at present.
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