Crossword for Fri, 15/Oct/2021

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Across
1: One who administers drug treatments puts me in band at Hat Head (9)

6: Richard Crag? (5)

8: Common thread uniting New York and half of London (5)

9: Sounds like Brazilian soccer player may make a good fisher (7)

11: Kicks watercraft (5)

13: In lieu, make a change for blood disorder (9)

14: Characters producing exit with cross? (9)

16: Ball mislaid? Caned (5)

17: Frequently held back by internet formalities (5)

18: You say the apartment you let someone use is having a problem with gas? (9)

20: Who applies pitch to a snake-rope? (9)

21: Jacket flap with label's centerpiece inverted? (5)

23: It's over, over, over, kept apart by past payment (7)

24: Notable piece of animation by English bishop (5)

26: Weirdos drop feet-first in pools (5)

27: Doctor singes off top of sore and bandages (9)
Down
1: Polygraph unexpectedly traps vandal (3)

2: Gibson working for shareholders' profit (5)

3: Have bananas now (3)

4: Shocks friend overwhelmed by rude slap (7)

5: Crime's delays? (4-3)

6: Farmyard creatures defining an unlikely story? (4,3,4)

7: Support a deranged original (11)

10: Explosive device held by one failed candidate (7)

11: Rifles protect lady from 16-down overhead (11)

12: Support sign for subordinates (11)

15: A month's work for a denizen of the deep (7)

18: Obese principal is a chump! (7)

19: Shorten a game (7)

22: Report build-up on cable tower (5)

24: Cronkite, Bradley, and Safer's first network (3)

25: One may be transported by this kiss, it's said (3)




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