The Frog and The Nightingale.

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Across
  1. 3. a very loud and unpleasant noise
  2. 4. Elegant style
  3. 8. miserable, bad-lempered
  4. 10. sang
  5. 11. male singing voice, fairly deep
  6. 13. Shaking
  7. 16. sequence of musical notes that go up and down
  8. 18. a large water bird
  9. 22. Flying mammal
  10. 23. sang beautifully
  11. 25. filled with fascination and delight
  12. 26. hated
  13. 27. A very loud
Down
  1. 1. Large marsupial
  2. 2. sang quickly
  3. 3. Likes to chase mice
  4. 5. Very exited
  5. 6. singing two musical notes one after the other, repeatedly and very quickly
  6. 7. totally interested, so that you cannot think of anything else
  7. 9. great pride and joy
  8. 11. publicity for a concert, show etc.
  9. 12. Man's best friend
  10. 14. a method of doing something
  11. 15. an area of land that is very wet and muddy
  12. 17. on misspelt and mispronounced so that it rhymes with dawn
  13. 19. Has a trunk
  14. 20. a small duck
  15. 21. Rough and unclear
  16. 23. Quite
  17. 24. 'sing some more' repeated request