Pronouncement by Noctifer
Down clues contain extra single words. The positions of these words within their clues index letters, which taken together spell how most people treated a pronouncement.
Corrections to misprints in each across clue provide instruction on what and how to highlight cells to reflect the pronouncement more properly, after filling the central cell to show the key name involved.
One answer is an abbreviation.
Across
2 Roman haul buried in Gaul, allegedly (4)
5 Child forest animals identified by hedge tracks (8, 2 words)
10 Abruptly walk back in vestment (3)
11 Athletic need less easy influence (6)
13 Swat sponge (3)
15 King defers to knight in devolved part in Montenegrin bay (5)
17 Pudsy primate briefly covered in sauce (5)
18 Large deer is sour-tempered, striking rock (5)
19 Bedroom obliterated in rowdy nights for those just made to punch holes (4)
20 Fit up behind (3)
21 After half time, Athletic bind Ross's large chest … (7)
22 … Mexican had serious role until the end of the first half (8)
24 Gunners relinquishing lodgings for light tents (4)
25 Perth reorganised to accommodate English for its preps, eagerly (5)
28 Oedipus' wrongdoing produces $100 in dodgy fines (6)
30 Band formation in festival return? No thanks! (4)
31 Noctifer would be found in best mishap; far from Olympic extremes? (8)
35 Maintain bearing in twisted slender gutters (7)
38 Statisticians ignoring the cries of Reds (3)
40 Go back and turn up to see secret policy! (4)
41 Potations brewed from these essential oils and processed paan (5)
43 Vengeful sorceress in the middle of local river (5)
44 Focus of fraying around goat's hair cloth (5)
45 Henry involved in borderline thuggery of yob (3)
46 Threefold mental exercises (6)
47 Band leader in horrifying ties up on assault charge (3)
48 Mass suspended in some oozing treacle (8)
49 Idly note a couple of variables (4)
Down
1 Acorns as Bambi fodder are in fine tangled mats (7, 2 words)
2 Original Uptown Funk starts under a Latin ostinato at first, with detachment (5)
3 Country in SE Asia head also organised (4)
4 Reach a consensus on controversy regarding age limits (5)
5 Ornament with spangles once barest sexuality is out (6)
6 Small capitals in the manner of 1999 ladder-like structure (5)
7 Over-excited ones lacking delirious energy make heavy particles (8)
8 Bornean tribesman fitted up old landing-place with automatic notice (5)
9 Deceitful people of Spenser's America urge sly sham (7)
12 Coat of arms' red colour uncovered by one short kiss over Edmund's crown (5)
13 Arbroath's halfpenny ball, born in little mountains? (6)
14 Half of muscle T's are scandalous essentials (5)
16 Dorothy's companion's opulent cream coat in outskirts of Toledo (4)
23 Earlier sideboards exist - use 20 for insatiable regeneration (8)
26 Exclamation of fatigue as tons thunder, dropped from altitude - stop! (7)
27 Like waves some watercolourists apply after about 7 (6)
29 Silk colours unconventionally freshened up suits I left out; peach has worked? (7)
30 Solid-eating piglet's space has to transform (5)
32 Archery hit off centre: winners missing gold outside (4)
33 Racket sport spectators, musicology faculty presidents take in inspired finish (6)
34 Tiny hint fury leads to inflammation of the amygdala (4)
35 A bit of drum, guitar, bass defines Afro-Cuban dance (5)
36 New Uptown Funk dub intros regularly ease people out of clothes? (5)
37 One's nearest pub's familiar screwdriver suitable for those on a diet? (5)
39 Perhaps Mr Stiles noisy breakdown is dropped for books (5)
42 Musical pattern Baltimore Indians play in contrapuntal arrangement (4)
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