The unclued lights (15 words in total) are to be arranged to provide a definition from Chambers of one of the normal clues which is NOT defined.
Across
9 Worst of anything I kept in home (10)
14 Agreement apparently penniless lecturer returns (3)
16 Menus beginning with a cold collation – mostly spicy stuff (6)
17 Faulty parachute doesn’t open (5)
18 Dissident bishop in part of film (5)
20 Less heavy boat used in docks (7)
22 Various grebes, say, at end of lake (7)
25 Arab picked up the vernacular (5)
26 Drink in press release? (5)
28 Narcissistic folk say it’s so fantastic (7)
31 Such clothes horrify sappers indoors (7)
33 Threatening look of the French pilgrimage destination (7)
37 They mixed litre of ordinary alcohol (5)
38 Quality craftsmanship backed it (5)
39 But downs are! (6)
40 Ogre in Tolkien’s work involved in exorcism (3)
41 Land on tree; mother has great fright first, reportedly (10, two words)
42 Confirm watching an Ashes match? (6)
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