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ACROSS 13 Cooperated (6,4)

14 Steel (7)

15 Definitely (6)

16 Problem (6)

17 Prudence (7)

18 Happening (5)

19 European (4)

20 Jam (5)

21 Lies low (5)

22 Vegetable (6)

23 Nab (5)

28 Astonish (7)

30 Cold (7)

33 Made a fuss (7,2)

36 Vessels (6)

38 Singer (5)

39 Prize (5)

40 Next (6)

42 Fight (3-2)

43 Non-domestic (7)

44 Gravity (6)

46 Usual (4)

49 Whirl (4)

51 Changes (6)

53 Happy (7)

55 Idle (5)

59 Waste (6)

60 Promise (5)

61 First (5)

62 Fighting (6)

63 Meaning (7,2)

65 Birds (7)

66 Flowered (7)

70 Soup base (5)

71 Flock (6)

73 Do (5)

75 Stop (5)

80 Eye part (4)

82 Bag (5)

83 Sediment (7)

84 One by one (2,4)

85 Blow (6)

86 New (7)

87 Biscuit (10)

DOWN 1 Overcharge (6)

2 Sense (8)

3 Love (5)

4 Be careful (5,2)

5 Garment (6)

6 Mark (5)

7 Artist (6)

8 Yarns (7)

9 Grasp (10)

10 Chatter (5)

11 Strike (8)

12 Transaction (4)

24 Dish (7)

25 Smallest (5)

26 Mean (7)

27 Praise (7)

29 Steed (5)

31 So (5)

32 Back (4)

34 Struggled (6)

35 Abhor (4)

37 Show (7)

41 Vest (7)

45 Male bird (6)

47 Desiring (7)

48 Coins (7)

50 Don’t allow (7)

52 Tied (4)

54 Blemish (5)

56 Near (5)

57 Territory (4)

58 Quip (5)

60 Weapon (7-3)

64 Rebukes (5,3)

67 Capsize (8)

68 Goes back (7)

69 Big house (7)

72 Headache (6)

74 Upright (6)

76 Yell (6)

77 Sees (5)

78 Boisterous (5)

79 Hazy (5)

81 Drive off (4)

CRYPTIC

ACROSS

13 Cooperated with the dog’s desire to have a game (6,4)

14 Not terribly huge,

moulded in steel (7)

15 A right heart-throb? I

should say so! (6)

16 He’s being deliberately annoying. That’s the problem (6)

17 Warn to have prudence (7)

18 Happening to get your own

back the time after (5)

19 Rod is a foreigner (4)

20 Get stuck into a

thick slice (5)

21 Lies low on the one

day he’s around (5)

22 I dash off right before, to

get something to eat (6)

23 Detect in the act

and dismiss (5)

28 Surprise that’s perhaps

again rebounded (7)

30 To his agitation,

extremely cold (7)

33 Travelling by, made

an awful fuss (7,2)

36 From the vehicles, quietly

boarded the vessels (6)

38 He sings a number in

the latter half (5) 39 Prize for taking on

a protégé (5)

40 Next to be joining

the team (6)

42 Fight the test frantically

to the last ball (3-2)

43 Pretend the gold is brought

in from abroad (7)

44 “Hang on”, you say

with gravity (6)

46 A man like most men? (4)

49 Pops back, in a whirl (4)

51 Changes and makes

repairs to, for a start (6)

53 Not making a cent all round but perfectly happy (7)

55 “Lazy” would be a

loose definition (5)

59 It’s too dry for the many

trees transplanted to (6)

60 Promise, though it’s

small, to put it on (5)

61 First and foremost (5)

62 It’s something to do

with fighting (6)

63 Meaning one’s seeking

to influence (7,2)

65 The usual sort, scattered

for the birds (7)

66 Flowered, it would appear,

in a plot in the garden (7) 70 Usual contents

of the pot (5)

71 Rush the rest off the

morning after (6)

73 Do, when he comes

in, act oddly (5)

75 Stop to go through,

nice as ever (5)

80 Something in your

eye, girl? (4)

82 To get the coin, sure

to undo the bag (5)

83 Reason for buying

a filter (7)

84 Run off after the silly

nit one by one (2,4)

85 Not a sit-down

meal? Blow! (6)

86 New nutcracker, red,

I brought in (7)

87 Biscuit for when you’re not

flush with money? (10)

DOWN

1 Charge much too much for a coat (6)

2 Yes, a number go outside,

showing sense (8)

3 Love to cheat –

are caught (5)

4 Play the video of, but

be careful (5,2) 5 The blue’s run and there’s

a hole in the garment (6)

6 Inside the small tin,

put a mark (5)

7 Did he paint “The

Convert”? (6)

8 Makes one’s way through

the ads – right through (7)

9 Must be unconscious to

bear it, you grasp (10)

10 Talk about repatriating for

vandalizing, at first (5)

11 Pop off in a coach when

there’s a strike (8)

12 One transaction

of many? (4)

24 The dog, dear, doesn’t

have a dish (7)

25 From a large seat, moved

to the smallest (5)

26 In the usual state

the time after (7)

27 Praise the union gets

inexplicably bitter about (7)

29 Nag about the rain pipe (5)

31 So the bird, a

crane, ran off (5)

32 Back off. Are right (4)

34 Tried to put the R

in “heater” (6)

35 Can’t stand having

the man grab at (4) 37 Show I meant to

go off key (7)

41 Garment one has

little time for (7)

45 Look for the name

of the airport (6)

47 Longing to fly, the insect

is trapped in (7)

48 Change the

uniformed men (7)

50 Stop round about

five. Shut up (7)

52 Took out and tied with (4)

54 “It’s not”, you say ungrammatically, “a blemish” (5)

56 Shut up. We’re

almost there (5)

57 It takes a time to get

back the territory (4)

58 Miss the joke (5)

60 A weapon to make

crowds disperse? (7-3)

64 Parasites removed, says

“Bad doggy”? (5,3)

67 After a clear run, come

to grief: capsize (8)

68 Goes back to find the minister and rest congregating (7)

69 The chap with the son,

I accommodated in

the big house (7)

72 The headache’s

made me surly (6)

74 A true ho-home (6)

76 Trick again into, which

is very funny (6)

77 Sees and doesn’t

allow to get up (5)

78 In a word, terribly young

and boisterous (5)

79 Gosh, poured in,

it’s cloudy! (5)

81 Drive off, having taken,

to pack, our time (4)