3  Jump ahead of a golfer beginning to putt badly (8)

 9  Elgin's treasures lost in witlessness (7)

10 Danger signal to the French marine (5)

11 Rushes to send back valuable instrument (5)

12 Some returned punches in netball causing court appearance (6)

14 Notices a wobble initially causing up and down motion (6)

16 Cry out in pain and confess (6)

19 Puts off deciding where to watch play (6)

21 Croat playing leading man, perhaps (5)

24 A long piece of wood going across ship (5)

25 Short article on popular hanging (7)

26 The adjusted rates for staging areas (8)

27 Plan for part of allotment (4)

 1  Boastful Mussorgsky introduces himself thus (8)

 2  Meandering Peru river is comparatively free from pollution (5)

 4  Some tigers at zoo are fake (6)

 5  Downright ugly prairie (5)

 6  Discover lies are fabricated (7)

 7  Ducks and drakes, maybe, are target of shoot (4)

 8  State request in a note (6)

13 Instrument fashionable in Bordeaux (8)

15 Radical maiden hides in old tree (7)

17 One hunted for rock producer (6)

18 Leaders of Pelagianism suggest you can heal every human soul (6)

20 Military Intelligence infiltrates lake north of Italian border (5)

22 Follow some footprints (5)

23 Group of players' deplorable acts (4)