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I cannot parse 2 clues ,

8d ' Council fix drains and head off ' (9)
answer is 'sanhedrin' , Jewish supreme court of Justice , can see drains in there but where does remaining 'nhe' come from ?

23d ' Well contains joke coins ' (5)
answer is ? money

can see that 'my' is well , but is 'one' same as joke ?

23, Bradford's Dictionary gives "one" as a synonym for "joke".
So your parse looks good.

8d mend with m off

should the clue be ...fix drains then head off??

The council clue was my last one, and, yes, I can't parse it. Annoying!

Trevor's suggestion looks good - anagram of drains (t)hen. Does anyone have the crossword to hand to check the wording?

Chrise, I've no longer got the paper, but I saw this clue being discussed (elsewhere, I think!) yesterday and the wording in the paper was slightly wrong. Wrong enough for the clue not to work properly.

I have it, and the original post is exactly as printed. I await next week's apology in the paper - unless we've all missed something.