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Some help to get me off the ground, please:
11Ac - Saint knocked back classy French wine in error ( 9 ): N????????
18Ac - Bard's tenure of pasture not 500 metres distant ahead ( 7, hyphened ): F??????
43Ac- Dish containing endless subterranean nuts ( 11 ):
?A?????????
Many thanks in advance!

11. Nicodemus
18. Fee-Farm
43. Sauerbraten.

I haven't parsed these - as a regular Spectator solver, you will work them out very easily, I'm sure.

Thanks, Malone, I'm on my way!

A bit more help with the following, please:

13Ac - Backing bonnie prince is actor Derek with Siamese silver ( 11 ): ?A??B??????
22Ac - Zulu chief is popular king and very great one( 6):
?????I
39 Sometime hug half Irish lasses(4 ): ???L
42 Trees prejudiced public safety ( no fib )( 9 ):
????????S

Many thanks!

13ac. Jacobitical
22ac. Inkosi
39 ac. Coll
42 ac. Eucalypts

Just for my edification, I want to see how close I was to the answers for these...Thank you!
ACROSS:
4 Plant is beset by little light breeze ( 11 , 2 words ):
?AB?S??E?T?
24 Solvent pedaller's wheels( 5 ): ????E
27 Which person's wife needs stockings? ( 5 ):
?H???
DOWN:
15 Passes by cats very hidden ( 5 ): ?M???
25 Hired a navy partly for fieldwork ( 5 ): ???A?
33 Toddler erected tent on grass ( 6, 2 words ): ?U?RAT

Many thanks again in advance! I think I have an idea of the unclued lights!

I'm not sure what you mean - 'I want to see how close I was to the answers for these'. Do you mean you have answers and aren't sure if they're correct or do you just want to be given (more) answers?

I have some answers, but cannot rationalize them, that's what I mean! Thank you!

Thanks for that, Lecrack - I'd perhaps jumped to the wrong conclusion, thinking you just had a long shopping list of answers you wanted! I hope you have them all sorted now. I found this a quite enjoyable and quite easy Spectator crossword, not always the case.

I have managed to sort out my answers now and have got the name of the author, but am experiencing some difficulty in solving all the unclued lights. I'll keep trying and if I do not get them all, I'll ask for some suggestions based on what I have found. Thanks again!