Twenty radial lights run from rim to centre, twenty from centre to rim. The circuit next to the outer one contains, clockwise from radial 1, a quotation attributed to the name appearing in the inner ring. The italicised clues contain the definition and a mixture of the solution (beginning at the beginning, or ending at the end of a word) including an extra letter. In clue order, these eight letters provide the source of the quotation. 11 is in Collins.

Clues (all six letters)

1 Sick in front of boat – swell!

2 Information of little value is evidence of leak?

3 Weight stirs faulty watches found thereabouts?

4 Feel acute shame, languish, with rector taking four steps back

5 Farthest from The Wash tidal drift

6 Two females are leaving plaice perhaps that’s somewhat overdue?

7 Chewy leftover antelope

8 Reader of scripture’s one making cross after start of evensong

9 Awards no marks?

10 Paul’s conned suckers

11 Single woman’s tribe

12 Brief timespan for Nicholls’ narrative

13 Extreme Tinder content – it makes you sick!

14 Flier’s endlessly stinging?

15 Specifying North American dynasty?

16 Scott Lang’s mass for first new magistrate

17 In the course of ephedrine drug

18 Making a request while ruler

19 All about night raving

20 Will’s complaining one abandons purpose

21 Very hot driver fans herself

22 Feminine lady, losing head, showing rare wildness

23 Uniform cut short is momentarily dazzling

24 Edmund’s exacerbated lie to himself

25 Surround English Nationalist network whose content is revolting

26 Biogenetic slip

27 Free in wild?

28 Scarcity of popular celebrity sandwiches

29 Losing page in parts of printing presses causes delays

30 Ancestral mount in the Golan Heights

31 Support for opening Bristol line

32 Accommodation at sea, housing a large number, almost totally dire

33 New laptop reduced, needs reconfiguration relating to connections?

34 Burnt almond is coarse

35 Vocal friend catches term of endearment

36 Take in the groove, bodily

37 Most favourable points are with German chamber on reflection

38 Work rate of Cambridge’s honoured mathematician

39 Almost circulating SMS containing number – on the contrary! (4,2)

40 Fragrant oils piscivores broadcast

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