Standard 18x18 Barred Grid Jumbo
by Cullen

Across
4   Blackjack? (6,4)
12   Irish girl many love to tease (5)
16   Lavers lavas (7)
17   Premedics I organised for effective contraception (10)
18   Plenty of room in them for long- distance travel? (10)
19   Found to be unfit after taking part (7)
21   New Age musician in African country losing capital (4)
22   North America intent on becoming a lease-holder (6)
24   Spies a fellow on the track (7)
25   Person withdrawing my money (3)
26   Richly decorated porcelain that could come from Hiroshima? Right (5)
27   Youngsters dither on board (7)
29   Come on, be honest enough to admit the exhibition's not too bad (5,4)
32   They serve to quench your thirst (4)
34   Collect a unique news-item on the floor above (5,2)
37   Solid sort of English opera singer (6)
38   Charming trinket (6)
42   Rusty-looking locks? (3,4)
45   There's some rumour my cousin's up in Wales (5)
46   Outcome of a trial - the rope (6)
48   Mexican bread (5)
51   Molten iron and a bit of bauxite put in globe (5)
52   Resting-place for flood survivors (6)
53   They're ready to eat <compiler's grammatical license!> (5)
56   Rate it a strange little operatic part (7)
57   Setting in the middle of Paris (6)
58   She is on after almost everybody (6)
59   Attractive plants mistakenly regarded as reeds (7)
63   The state in which the studio was (4)
64   Offence almost taken during a solo turn, sadly for musician (9)
67   Metal-cutter was returned to journalist (7)
69   Did some pressing (5)
71   Make light of a failure to go straight (3)
73   Radar equipment for the surveyor (7)
77   Withdraw the charge (6)
78   Polynesian food extract from
nectar oranges (4)
79   Practical person of extensive conquests? (7)
80   Working to produce a fall - naturally! (4-6)
81   Rings, catching William at home making pasta dish (10)
82   Of no uncertain age, available for a tryst (7)
83   Person taking shot is less forward (5)
84   Established firm (10)

Down

1   Reversal for a high-society clique (5)
2   Excellent, one of us being so phenomenal (10)
3   It's morning and a girl appears (6)
5   Nippers of our ancestors! (3-4)
6   They're taking it easy (7)
7   Not colourful like the female (5)
8   Contaminate, once mother leaves! (6)
9   Pat and Rose tumbling in the garden (7)
10   Slow movement produced no advance (5)
11   Designer label for fashionable
airman (6)
12   Flower lady is to drink a constant amount (11)
13   Razorbill's birthplace! (5)
14   Sounds like genuine Iranian currency (4)
15   Dress and become exhausted (3,5)
20   Step taken in street journey (6)
23   Without it to bring up, armies get routed one after the other (8)
27   Foreign soldier in a shipwreck (5)
28   Key is held by less satisfied cleaner (7)
30   Made a searching examination by all accounts (7)
31   A girl I ring in Italy (7)
33   Rural company appearing in club I organised (7)
35   Round tables constructed for dedicated people (7)
36   Shout of pain after a harp played for the king (7)
39   Los Angeles hosts your contracted stars (4)
40   Bride more bothered by Elizabeth becoming a needlewoman (11)
41   Coach the fellow as a railway operator (5-3)
43   The age of the rat race (3)
44   Reportedly authentic dance (4)
47   Section not requiring piano skill (3)
49   There is no alternative for avoiding head-on collisions (3,3,4)
50   What did Hiawatha make of Minnehaha? (5)
54   Copper-metals alloyed in peace-pipes (8)
55   In the style of strange old- fashioned call to arms (6)
60   Cake's name concealed, but not in code (2,5)
61   Sadomasochism, an eye-opener? Hardly (7)
62   Material for expert at the gallery (7)
65   Nothing clear coming from Delphic adviser (6)
66   Revolutionary aims to present Chinese philosophy (6)
68   Ways to protect copy writer (6)
70   Small type is the best (5)
72   Dimension of old copper coin (5)
74   Tribe found in the Sudan and Indonesia (5)
75   It's the devil getting a good golf score (5)
76   Nimble mole spotted around river (4)

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