SOLUTION BELOW

ACROSS

1 Shut out (7)

4 Act nonchalantly (4,2,4)

9 Consolidate (7)

13 Give support to (4)

14 Loudness (6)

15 Implied (6)

16 Black Death plague (7)

19 Doggedly purposeful (10)

20 Retail outlet for readers (8)

21 Compare (5)

24 Leg-extending poles (6)

25 At an angle (6)

27 Renounced the throne (9)

32 Educated (8)

33 Fermented fodder (6)

34 Golf course avenue (7)

38 Region (8)

39 Be emphatic (6)

40 Without feeling (4)

41 Special skill (5)

42 Senior group member (5)

45 Recuperate (6,2,6)

52 Trials (5)

55 Artist’s stand (5)

56 Closed hand (4)

57 Big gun (6)

58 First public performance (8)

61 Ink-soaking paper (7)

62 Mar (6)

63 Wedding paper (8)

66 Celestial bodies (9)

68 Joint-sealing packer (6)

69 Position (6)

73 Head cavity (5)

74 Legal writ (8)

76 Track (10)

81 Yearbook (7)

82 Vulgar worthless art (6)

83 Crops up (6)

84 Hoodlum (4)

85 Sugar (7)

86 Magnetism (10)

87 Marked down (7)

DOWN

1 Receded (5)

2 Mixed drink (8)

3 Not native (6)

4 Dried plum (5)

5 High cards (4)

6 Occupy (7)

7 S. American vulture (6)

8 Follows orders (5)

10 Responsibility (4)

11 Furnish (7)

12 Sculptor’s tool (6)

17 Shelter (10)

18 Dense (5)

22 Plot tender (8)

23 Tropical parrot (5)

24 Banded (7)

26 Glossy fabric (4)

28 Waxy-flowered plant (7)

29 Agree (6)

30 Grasp tightly (6)

31 Team’s talisman (6)

33 Fleet (5)

35 Wash out (5)

36 Duplicate (4)

37 Miss out (4)

43 By mouth (6)

44 Construct (5)

46 Heinous (4)

47 Wild (7)

48 Drink of the gods (6)

49 Proprietor (5)

50 Ghost expeller (8)

51 Shores (anag)(6)

52 Enticement (10)

53 Look for (4)

54 Ghost (7)

59 Prise (5)

60 Long ago (4)

64 Sham (5)

65 Lawless (8)

67 Use a gas (anag)(7)

68 Vividly described (7)

70 Cricket bat wood (6)

71 Film cutter (6)

72 Thin covering (6)

75 Tip (5)

77 Outsider (5)

78 Moved gradually sideways (5)

79 Deceased (4)

80 Cab (4)