Across

1Casual arrival at Nice for a change to see opera (10,9)
11Checked - and upbraided (6,3)
16Ray wanted to wander around North- East - here in the UK? (4,3,4)
17A shade of hesitation to support (5)
18Blame screen for distorting likeness (11)
19Immediately after a hotpot, had crackers (2,3,4,2,1,3)
20Humanitarian fellow takes an hour going into subject (13)
21Supply of clothes? Buy them here (5,5)
22It keeps the screws steady (4,6)
23At three, perhaps, for a matinee (7)
25Earnestly gripping royal hand from time to time (14)
28Great lad in charge at high speed (10)
31Blackleg, a disease of sheep (4)
32Mean almshouse rebuilt with hesitation in Oxford exhibition centre (9,6)
34Hapless victim of low quality and high prices (4,4)
38Whence jets are sent out to quell opposition to government (5-6)
39Broadcast recordings of Robinson Crusoe? (6,6,5)
41For instance, Derby people (4)
42At home, in a thoughtful manner about one-time partner's budget (13)
44Hoax with a letter in morse, perhaps (4)
47Classic holiday film of fall & winter is due to be renovated (3,1,9,4)
49Any dictions go astray by way of association (11)
50Wet blankets fail to hold water (8)
52Throughout most of term, awfully strict (4,4,2,5)
53European swimming aid, as heard on radio (4)
57Floating a balloon at 1? That's a means of offering (10)
59It's the talk of Berlin and ... (6,8)
63... are worthy of the French, ever busy (7)
64It's quite fashionable, for example, to turn up dressed in these about the beginning of lunch (10)
66Eagles seen flying from part of Africa (10)
69Enquiry about panic? The answer could be grating (6,3,4)
70Who was Othello? (3,4,2,6)
71Compensation for the others, tuition being disrupted (11)
72Cuts down on meat (5)
73The world's biggest construction, an invisible barrier (7,4)
74American's right title for MP's in The Commons? (9)
75In transit ? That's not important (7,4,3,5)

Down

1Beastly downpour? (4,3,4)
2Tom Wolfe made a bonfire of them (8)
3Editorials with informed guidance (10)
4Bush, the American and former president? (5,9)
5Diamond's found next to standard clear orthoclase (3-4)
6Refine lines about a judge (6)
7Badly saturated - show direction (5-8)
8Broker has to be sentimental in the pub (2-7)
9Cleo's snake and fury form the making of a coffin nail (1,6)
10They fly you around in Israel (8)
11Experiment unit of abnormal size housing uranium and covered in a hard shell (10)
12Taper, stop rambling! (4,2,3,5)
13Equipment for photographers wanting great pictures (9)
14Nice poem not untangled with divine right (11)
15Supplier of missiles, one

believes, for mutineer (8,9)
24Fierce attempt at trouble-making in vote for Left (7,6)
26Age about which Livy and Tacitus wrote (5,5)
27Linda *******, Page 3 girl and actress, posed again as lurid (7)
29Cowards and traitors turning up to interrupt parents (8)
30Lady of affairs? (8,5)
33I'm head over heels with new sites? No! (9)
35Amateur band enthusiast (5,3)
36Battle in which chargers took part? (5,3)
37A touch-and-go situation? (7,3)
38King has speech to introduce deserving poet (7,10)
40No broad spectrum remedy, this! (8)
43A leap at dawn can make a bird's pedal webbings (7)
45Dominated by digital pressure (5,4,5)
46A ridge our fleet smashed up in an island group (6,3,5)
48Poet spurned me - ends in trouble (6,7)
51Starts serving drinks, being a shop assistant (11)
54At this point the chap is staggering, taking drug at this point only (7,4)
55Daisy to get married; discuss ceremony (10)
56Humiliation of French lower house (10)
58Tart chased by heartless limber cello virtuoso (9)
60Flier going around, kind to one of one's first set (4,5)
61Statesman from an Asian country, carrying bread (8)
62Single one in Napoleon's island, and the rest turned round (8)
65Refutations from Helen, child of Leda (7)
67Cause of runny nose - being in European river, twice (7)
68Largely affected cry from fencer (6)


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