Coffee Break Cryptic

23 September

Across

1 Inkling almost perfect (4)
3 Lacking experience with cunning garden pests (8)
9 Thrown or flung many yards (7)
10 Spirit revealed by music presenter in Beethoven's ninth (5)
11 Girl seen in Preston or Manchester (5)
12 20th century poet havin' fun? (6)
14 Say no to garbage (6)
16 Black bird dog (6)
19 Information found by girl in a Swiss city (6)
21 Cooked pears left over (5)
24 Availing oneself of gun is wrong (5)
25 People in the Himalayas sorted out her pass (7)
26 Gun I fire, shattering small statue (8)
27 Pay attention to what's in the editorial? (4)

Down

1 Troops finding child on railway (8)
2 Panic, losing head? There's something wrong there (5)
4 Entertain lavishly with flipping English beer (6)
5 Church official seen in tree (5)
6 French leader getting sick and conking out (7)
7 American Revolution for king? No! (4)
8 Head of mule or donkey found in marsh (6)
13 Poetry in colour or vice-versa (8)
15 Emotion extremely enjoyable in dance (7)
17 A tree's transformed for the holiday (6)
18 Mother and child supplying fruit (6)
20 Unusually large composer (5)
22 Head leaving specimen — more than enough (5)
23 Worthless pudding (4)