2656: A la carte

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    A fun time, consuming right jellies (5)

29    She tries to reform crooks (8)

31    Worries, cutting son’s hair (7)

35    Family members in US city (8)

37    Poetry volume’s neglected language (4)

41    Maria and I’ve developed health issue (8)

42    Botanist’s tip about hostelry (7)

43    Analyse heart of tipsy chap (5)

44    Opens funny note, officially in residence (2,5)

45    Like Napoleon in exile in Leeds, oddly (7)

Down

2    French loaf topping? (5)

3    Swindle one used in chess (4)

5    Fissure runs through vessel, nearly empty (6)

6    Noblemen she confused with a stoic (9)

9    Echoes seller: swears without hesitation (11)

10    American diamonds for cloak (5)

11    To sailors, perhaps they create solitude (9)

13    Sue picked up a ring (6)

17    Spreads out crisps eaten messily (11)

19    From literature, terse passages (7)

22    Rage working drill mechanism (4,5)

23    Study again on fire, overturned by bomb (2-7)

27    Soak atop the Parisian tower (7)

30    Holy writings in paper on OT book (6)

32    Bad painter wanting a pigment (6)

33    Emperor in PM’s home? No, moving south (5)

34    Uncover dodgy haunt (5)

39    A setter’s on line – radical! (4)

Download a printable version here.