Coffee Break Cryptic

23 August

Across

1 Crazy night fliers (4)
3 Pitiful epic that is translated (8)
9 Time to hold on for a good degree (7)
10 Gun fired initially in anger (5)
11 French sea, Italian desert (5)
12 Pressed for De Niro production (6)
14 Article sketched for patron saint (6)
16 The rest of Spain? (6)
19 Composer about to jump aboard (6)
21 One who gives a fellow gold (5)
24 Smart king or little bird (5)
25 Boat taking 500 in choppy lagoon (7)
26 Wind round one with defective hearing? (8)
27 Some other Easter present (4)

Down

1 Unconventional Czech (8)
2 Singer taking part in Britten oratorio (5)
4 Attack when provided with canvas (6)
5 Spear dropped on Marx (5)
6 Beginning to talk of payments for sweets (7)
7 Sign on staff, almost split (4)
8 Brand may be heard making a sound (6)
13 Bearing the cost of sending goods (8)
15 Flowers Lisa had arranged (7)
17 Medicament required when one has duck to eat? (6)
18 Confused in game or puzzle (6)
20 Satisfactory in each game (5)
22 Putting one's head in this may make one so wretched (5)
23 Despicable people in dirty film? (4)