Special, Sunday 13 Jan 2019, IXL-18 Preliminary Crossword 2

Three answers per commenter as usual till 6 PM (Annotations compulsory)
Please provide all your answers in one comment.

Note to solvers: A “letter bank” is a word or phrase with no repeated letters that provides the material for a longer word or phrase containing each letter of the “bank” at least once. For example, MOTHER is a letter bank for THERMOMETER, and FRACTIONS is a letter bank for SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI.

ACROSS
1   See good person nearly going outside one boutique (9)
6   Sticky drone beside finger (5)
9   Lead-free air’s surrounding a few chemical compounds (7)
10 Grouch protects Latin American nation (7)
11 Dance hall music genre completely accepted by newlywed (5,8)
13 Saudi’s neighbour returned in a second (5)
14 Create bit of fever by mutating bacteria (9)
16 American river sent churning with repeated use (9)
18 Excited chap embraces English beauty (5)
20 Retrospective done away with in a kind of talk not keeping anyone awake? (13)
24 Leader of army pondering diverting (7)
25 Coppers arresting 51 customers of a law firm (7)
26 Fate closed gambling game (5)
27 Finally liberate body part caught in streetcar’s wires (9)

DOWN
1   Produce British band for Thursday (5,5)
2   Botanical pores recalled as covering most of red fruit (7)
3   Ring composer maintains resistance to extremely volatile state of intense activity (9)
4   Order a stagecoach carrying dreadlocks wearer (5)
5   Rum drink quality keeps pub out front (4,5)
6   Circle at bottom of Hades: are you there? (5)
7   Mom crosses a border with black instrument (7)
8   Race day, sort of grey (4)
12 Protestants sat down at the front in lifts (10)
14 The endless presents, even though all rebuffed engagement (9)
15 Troublemaker close, hovering in a menacing way (9)
17 Certainly drop off asleep clutching front of bathrobe (2,5)
19 Choose as needed from neat cricket feature (7)
21 I contributed to Tuscany’s dear city (5)
22 Outdo forty of the Romans, we hear (5)
23 Family drops my bomb (4)

Across Lite version can be accessed at IXL Preliminary 2

Enjoy.