Clockwise round the grid from 37 runs a quotation plus its source (3,3,5,8,8,5,2,3,6,2,3,4) suggesting the outcome of 2. Remaining unclued lights, combined and subjected to 2, identify the author (three words). Elsewhere, ignore an accent.
Across
8 Garden cheers New World mammals (8)
10 Green and half-green bacteria (5, two words)
12 Lag Ivy Leaguer had rebuffed (5)
13 Flyer’s navigation manual (page missing) (7)
14 Plucky giant cycling (4)
15 Painter of meadow weeping (7)
17 Outdated trials in anterooms lacking force (5)
19 Detective meets senior prisoner (8)
25 Secretary goes round with bearlike creature (5)
26 I am feeding docked bullocks in compound (5)
27 Day nursemaid saves for...
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