Across

1An example of excellence to preserve in Oscar Wilde's play (2,5,7)
9Does up wrongly, being fake (6)
12Returning American swot brought on old film star with much information (12)
13Acted as solicitor, getting bill priced up (8)
14Overlooking ancient capital, man observed pagans (8)
15Item can't be cleaned? I don't believe it! (4,4,4)
16The overseer could well be of more wan appearance (9)
17Foolish to keep mum, having a particular way with words? (11)
20A tradesman who has nothing new to offer (7,6)
22Do better upriver for fish (7)
24Fidelity, for example, within marriage (10)
25Plain relation of a fairy tale (4,6)
27Holds up progress of some Muslim pedestrians (7)
29Pro-con? (3,3,7)
31Arch-priest's organised examination (5-6)
32Harangues a bride - it's awful (9)
35Claims and dependants make progress difficult (12)
37Laughs when Ginger's swinging on the pole (8)
38Plant that is one in a hundred (8)
39Leaving port, as in a famous play (7,5)
40I need a change from Virgil (6)
41Order to sailor to exercise, aiming to improve with this? (6,8)

Down

2Such a wimp gets repeated refusal embracing the woman (3=4)
3How some tennis strokes may be played in the future? (4-3-4)
4With which a private investigator goes to work? (2,3,2,8)
5Exalted status of one on a rostrum (4,8)
6Boasts about heavy footwear (6)
7Dread sex manual translated from French author (9,5)
8Useless person is an insensitive

driver perhaps (8)
9Bill's back in the enclosure, the nut! (5)
10Once, where list was amended (9)
11People getting down to work in the main (4-3,6)
18Book a journey that ends up in the subcontinent (1,7,2,5)
19I'm Eve, a cool, rich corrupter of singers (4,5,5)
21More inelegant, after a fashion, sporting a Busy Lizzie (4-2-7)
23Rubber could produce a fortune with this! (8,4)
26Boasts oddly about not feeling well if one's shifted by a blow (7,4)
28Central passage in letter about quite ridiculous protocol (9)
30Agent provocateur thrown out of Italy, headless (8)
33Republic, mainly pleasant and aiming at peace (7)
34Is back in Paris, and then is back there again? Fly's the answer (6)
36Spring tide, from the sound of it (5)


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