Coffee Break Cryptic

18 August

Across

1 The sort to press keys? (4)
3 Promptly noted — hot stew (2,3,3)
9 Rome, for example, is excellent (7)
10 Provide French article over there (3,2)
11 Racecourse to keep so many content (5)
12 Alliance including one new county (6)
14 Where circus audience is engrossed (6)
16 Pinch the Spanish metal (6)
19 Glass and paper? (6)
21 Cast fly, initially, to get fish (5)
24 Preserved Egyptian mother? (5)
25 Funny priests carry on (7)
26 Take legal action about Europeans or Africans (8)
27 Celebrity with a heavenly body? (4)

Down

1 Ready for sleep, having eaten heartily (6,2)
2 Diarist takes a look, we hear (5)
4 Stockings only ordered by Poles (6)
5 Composer taking short breaks before the end of August (5)
6 Uninteresting weed seen where ships are laid up (3,4)
7 Large cask on top of a fish (4)
8 Part of flower set man off (6)
13 So-and-so born on boat (8)
15 Mid-term may be reduced (7)
17 Grass in class (6)
18 Animals following King George for fruit (6)
20 Artificial silk — or any sort (5)
22 I spot one inside supplying dope (5)
23 Prophet seen in Judaea, mostly (4)