A trio of unclued lights (four words, one with an apostrophe) gave rise to another trio found in four further unclued lights (eight words in total), all of which featured the two remaining unclued lights.
Across
1 Suspect fine spray having corrosion (8)
9 Assessment of arrangement of a tune and a viol (10)
14 Flower that’s popular with Nationalist (3)
16 Firm fish penned? (6)
17 Ethiopian king’s drink (5)
18 Chap welcome to retch (5)
20 Soup – broth’s mixed with bit of cabbage (7)
22 Two dramas – one cut – failure (7, hyphened)
24 Not very much of article by violinist, Tasmin (7, two words)
25...
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