The unclued lights can be joined to form six pairs.

        Across

   6    No intro to US showbiz approach? (7)

11    Left earlier than usual in mere sport (4)

12    Whiteness of marital bed, only partly (6)

14    Again announce gusto outside bar (9)

17    Translated phrase, Latin, gets round (7)

18    Something stuck in organ? Emergency room taking a call (7)

19    Jumble sale with 50% off – clothing must go first (6)

20    Horrid runt regularly scurries to teacher (10)

22    Perhaps enough said by Will’s back-pedalling fools (5)

30    Excellent quip at first counters anxiety (5)

33    Calmer yoga changes bone growth? (10)

36    Count destroys academics, both saving skin? (6)

38    Pair held in check, back in Ascot for later run (7)

39    Traffic controller worried about FBI agent? On the contrary (7)

42    Pigeon, say, eating nothing has picked up a danger of disease (9)

43    Urchin, in the main, engages unnamed works (3,3)

44    Son turning to pull bone up (4)

45    Gibe briefly reckless about opening in audition (7)

        Down

   1    Drawn out issue a result of these? (7)

   2    New premise initially heralding damage to Spenser (8)

   3    Relatively broad suit order (6)

   4    Similar row: dean’s angry (9)

   6    Poet determined to divide potato dish (8)

   9    Singers with lyres played around retro party (7)

10    Handle husband bitten by tailless creature (6)

13    Arguably bedridden, go over lines in US (6)

15    On and off, rheum upset church rector, man of the cloth? (6)

21    Report 1A in lavish display (5,4)

23    Worker who might pay tender attention? (6)

24    Way of life that’s possibly saving me (8)

26    Scoundrel choking English author over night attack (8)

27    Saints crushed by huge generosity (7)

28    One prison drug breaks long stretch? (3,3)

31    Change in America concerning resort (6)

32    Finished under half of biscuit containing unknown insect (7)

35    Black reptile almost lifted nut (6)

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