Across 1 These characters help mail get to its destination (6,5) 7 Nick taken out of tangled chicken wire, being more elastic (7) 11 What one did after a bath to put things right (9) 16 'I am going to brush the floor' is an extravagant generalisation (8,9) 17 Mirage consisting of plump horse surrounded by drivers (4,7) 18 Memorial of long standing (7,8) 19 Hornblower's new baby perhaps the right colour (6-3-4) 20 Puffed-up state head is pursuing story got up by editor (10) 21 In which body there could be remuneration appeal! (8,10) 23 Ministers fudge reform - deformities result (14) 25 By accord against being sexually exciting (10) 29 Well-nigh niggardly (4) 30 It receives signals broadcast from small road or A.I.R. stations (10,5) 31 Very attractive lady of habit writhing in pain (8) 34 Those who go in for it simply burn with enthusiasm (12) 35 In stadium boxer scrapped covering head with both hands (16) 37 Try writing about pollution (4) 38 Extreme disgust, so to speak (5,8) 40 Relative pressure shown up in letters from Greece (4) 45 Old physician is treading on adder in belated warmth (5,5,6) 46 Intend to release a way to get measure of the atom (4,4,4) 48 Trees ravaged - endless pest commits waste on land (8) 49 Later, in plain view, it may be a quiet river (8,7) 51 Possibly evil-looking screen (4) 54 How to have 100 attached to your account? (10) 55 Angered Pete yet turned out to be a despicable character (10,4) 58 Pass message on to servicemen? Come off it! (4,2,2,3,7) 60 They deliver warm blows (4,6) 63 Stupidly looking at masseur kissing (13) 64 Lots of people who are thinking logically of six and eight, for example (8,7) 65 Bull terriers run and run, barking and mean with leads off (11) 66 In unconventional way cracks my code, possibly? (11,6) 67 Twelve groups making nightly appearances (4,5) 68 This is rarely a necessity (5-2) 69 Yucca - was it used to make aprons? (5,6) Down 1 Forster novel established by Alexander The Great (7,2,5) 2 Tegument ceased to function (4-4) 3 Understands this could mean arrests (10) 4 Perpetual stress of endlessly

reiterated music (8,6) 5 Tyrants of foreign localities (7) 6 US detective is bluff with you and me (6) 7 Saucy pancake! So persecute Zeta without a turnover (5,7) 8 Work hard to make one's party successful (11) 9 Mensa member, perhaps, titillates Uncle Dicky (15) 10 Proving wrong about fine excursion having no leader (8) 11 One who returns like for like? (10) 12 I blame idiots on a spree for disbandment of troops (14) 13 Army sentry signal we designed - it's for reporting problems in advance (5,7,6) 14 Fisherwoman that's an invention of Irish playwright? (7) 15 Professor Higgins, for example - egotistical old sort (14) 22 Strange stock in this old Dickensian establishment (9,4) 24 They don't function well if they feel deflated (5,5) 26 National federation gives specification on football team (6,6) 27 Somehow a critic's sins are self-aspiring (12) 28 Sentence originally introducing Macaulay's record of the distant past (4,9) 32 Some time in the future when it is not raining (3,2,5,4,4) 33 A government tender for the health service (5,5) 36 This animal needs more than what a cow does (5) 39 Italian, for example (7,8) 41 Sufferers from it might find their stairs too difficult (14) 42 Police officer meaning to be controlling (14) 43 They are the ones who gulp what comes after Brand X (6,8) 44 Fashionable pointer for a modern sundial? (3,6,5) 47 Nothing is gained when advances are made thus (8-4) 50 So, a real-time solution has beneficial effect (11) 52 They help get rid of annoying small visitors (10) 53 Sculptor makes one rhyme or other (5,5) 56 Persian fairy's information about area nearest earth (8) 57 Will the good man ever die after his head has been cut off? (8) 59 Unqualified person on a peninsula in Africa (7) 61 Where Lawrence went to drink cold coffee (7) 62 Battle over a river, generally and specifically (6)