Unclued lights, including one of two words (all in Chambers) display nine items of a kind in the grid, appropriately positioned in relation to each other. All nine must be highlighted.
Across
1 Bear dire deed to resolve neurosis (7)
7 Indian city cleric lacking force (7)
13 Running into water ebbing for ages (5)
14 Flaw of terrible mishearing (7)
15 Expert to restrain lawyer’s friend (8)
16 Record one bovid with adult parasites? (6)
17 Unwise or silly, eating seconds (6)
18 Coal dust around German city (4)
23 Old instrument’s din heard (7)
24 New line in French church showing mercy (8)
25 Some feeding us tomato relish (5)
28 ...
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