Solution to THC # 9023

Across
 1 This patient gets carried away (9,4) STRETCHER CASE (?)
 8 Contracts for psychiatrists (7) SHRINKS
9 Totally without purpose? (7) ENDLESS
11 Evidence of French leaving show (6) EVINCE
13 A way to travel cheaply and see great ruins (8) STEERAGE
15 Henry to ride out to place of concealment (5) HIDER
16 Misplaced pride about a rebel leader who was turned aside (7) PARRIED
18 Tom going round naked finds it entertaining (7) CABARET
19 Divine messenger frees girl in quarter (5) ANGEL
21 Charm one’s way in (8) ENTRANCE
23 Make a sharp bend in the flight route (6) DOGLEG
25 Openings made by Thomas in South Africa with gratitude (7) STOMATA
26 Pressing a fellow to join the English Cricket team (7) EXIGENT
28 Going blind taking a mortality count (4,9) DEAD RECKONING
Down
 2 Dithering trader I delayed (7) TARRIED
 3 No oriental returns to eternity (3) EON
 4 Arrange in a suitable order (4) CAST
 5 Choose to talk — they make one cross! (10) ELECTORATE
 6 Many have read about the activists group in a revolutionary (5) CADRE
 7 Wrong set — draw back for waiter on board (7) STEWARD
 8 Crooked pastoral lady! (11) SHEPHERDESS
10 Realise what one should be able to do at the end of the tunnel (3,3,5) SEE THE LIGHT
12 Indian race in Central America? (5) CARIB
14 Set great store by increase in value (10) APPRECIATE
17 Married in ancient or anyway mature state (5) IMAGO
18 Do teach going round the terminal (7) CATHODE
20 Lone girl destroyed Spanish treasure ship (7) GALLEON
22 Medal for conflict in our time (5) AWARD
24 They shall inherit heaven (4) MEEK
27 Put up in an abode (3) INN