Coffee Break Cryptic

25 May

Across

1 Start docking vessel after nightfall? (4)
3 Films for which no actors are required? (8)
9 Soccer eam that's second in sporting venue by lake (7)
10 Funereal sound a little girl heard (5)
11 Weight not right on cue (5)
12 Outdoor party doll? (6)
14 Pudding about to be brought back for poor scholar (6)
16 Manage somehow to form party (4,2)
19 Castaway off course (6)
21 Criminal employed by shepherd? (5)
24 Performing murder? Good! (5)
25 One with right animal for the country (7)
26 A sort of craftsman - English, wild one (8)
27 Nothing interrupting dance band (4)

Down

1 Gems for suit (8)
2 Quit, rejecting good sticky stuff (5)
4 One's not prepared for these remarks (2-4)
5 One who accepts teak could be right (5)
6 Former opener for Essex enters punctually (3-4)
7 Something to attract shoppers in Jerusalem (4)
8 Narrow opening in a northern river? This will provide more room (6)
13 What steeplejack did, being agitated? (6,2)
15 Agriculture in distant China (7)
17 Soreness in a north German city (6)
18 Colour as used by Spencer is eye- catching (6)
20 Letter from leaders of senate implicitly glorifying Mark Antony (5)
22 Protagonist hides somewhere in New Zealand (5)
23 Cutter does sums out loud (4)