Coffee Break Cryptic

24 December

Across

1 Drug for a fool (4)
3 Soldier, perhaps, that carries sailors? (3-2-3)
9 Quickly put into words (7)
10 Fed up with being drilled (5)
11 This foreign bread is mine, thank you (5)
12 Cad making rude retort? (6)
14 Setting for a cello composition (6)
16 Ale and wine put before the queen (6)
19 Material from West Coast state taken by one company (6)
21 Plant some privet, perhaps, or some wretched geraniums (5)
24 Some real gold star (5)
25 One sort of shirt or vest (7)
26 Heaven is in March (8)
27 Exploited American editor (4)

Down

1 Action by head required to change a name (4,4)
2 Spot Italian bird (5)
4 Take in sailor's sphere (6)
5 The way of the world? (5)
6 Most circumspect, using ears and wit (7)
7 Theme park attraction - for some, a horrid experience! (4)
8 Happen to exist before autumn (6)
13 Wild deer and rats may be stopped (8)
15 One who makes you pay for a horse (7)
17 Where palm is available (2,4)
18 Sounds made by hooters about one (6)
20 I had been at the front - and took it easy! (5)
22 Playthings for Guy's companions (5)
23 Keep on and on at an instrument? (4)