Each of four unclued lights is the result of an action that may be described as 7 (hyphened), a definition of which is supplied by an unclued light. One unclued light is the result of 39 (a three-word phrase confirmed in Chambers under its third word). Elsewhere, ignore an accent.
Across
1 Commercial projects including no charge for accessories (8)
8 Parties without tense moments (4)
11 Cut capers, excited to get mortarboards (12, two words)
12 Superfluous middle part in speech (5)
14 Very hot fuel in heap (7)
16 Radical in revolutionary league (4)
17 Music, tiny portion by Georgia (5)
18 Diagram of interactions absent in...
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