Special, Sunday 14 Apr 2019, K Koteswar Rao

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

ACROSS
8   Fruit slaughter but not about right! (6)
9   Withstood war of devolution? No, no! (8)
10 Cool talcum powder line of business (8)
11 Sudden power of politician surrounded by corruption (6)
12 Promotion in daily spread (6)
13 16DN is at sea and fit for navigation (8)
15 Family name goes up due to motion (7)
17 End-to-end Walt Disney creation (7)
20 American state American shade American act (8)
22 We sit to-do nothing knowing (4,2)
23 Password that works like magic oil! (6)
25 Encountered a pro reportedly in figure of speech (8)
26 Broad-based Tom is a heavy drinker, burning out coal (8)
27 Setter put forward with half of them in the same book (6)

DOWN
1   Take away someone by force to China. (8)
2   Drug zone or otherwise the very beginning? (6,4)
3   A secretive person’s head sacrificed for unknown surgical instrument (6)
4   Sacred remains for spiritual protection? (4,3)
5   Clean sweep. It’s one thing at a time (8)
6   See you later in Chicago frequently (4)
7   This partner may not see eye to eye (3,3)
14 Germ-free insect decapitated on time in long story (10)
16 She is a young woman reportedly, American (8)
18 Fool and scoundrel without heart of sum and substance (8)
19 Mantra in reach is more than necessary (3,4)
21 Old and new? Yes. Disconnected! (3-3)
22 Badly hit in success, not over (6)
24 Long private seal of authority without limits (4)

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Enjoy.