Clockwise round the grid from 7 run the names (8,5,3,3,8,3,8,7,7) of six members of a winning set, the other three members forming the unclued lights (including two of two words). Solvers must shade the two clued lights giving further relevant names.
Across
8 Seaweed aged sheep gobbled (5)
9 One’s advanced banking system backing Eastern art (7)
10 Love of French poetry (3)
11 Spiritual father a pub ruined (4)
13 Plant right in marshland (4)
15 Porcelain lid in the White House? (5)
16 One thousand and eight lumps of sugar? (5)
17 Beastly battle...
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