Complete Clue List
Across
1. Temporary deviation in a trend
5. Persons or documents, that provides information
10. Small nail with a wide head
14. Regain something lost
15. An Inuit Shaman (OR if we really have to, IATA code for Oranjestad, Aruba)
16. Fill with love (in American)
17. A very long time - probably hyperbole
18. Sea level which exposes the most beach (3,4)
21. Regional capital in southern Italy
22. To cut short
23. Alternatives
24. Small porous sachets containing leaves onto which boiling water is poured to make hot drinks
27. Jazz style, fast tempo that developed in the US in the 40s
30. Barack, former US President
31. South American ratites
34. Ancient Greek nymph, wannabe lover of Narcissus
36. National US Infectious Diseases facility based in Atlanta known by its initials
37. Parrots from New Zealand (not Korea)
38. Massive irrigation scheme based on this Western Australian river (Or Chicago airport IATA code)
40. Small, standard size dry cell battery
42. Part of a circle, favoured by Joan
43. Common eating fish
45. 'Rocky' actor (9,8)
46. Popular hot drink
47. 1974 novel by Colleen McCullough OR a 1979 movie starring Mel Gibson based on the same book
48. French water
49. Decay
50. Cow noises
52. No score
54. Initially, a University entrance exam to study legal processes and policies
56. Waxy solid substance secreted by plants and a source of polymers
58. Diminishes
60. Pele's real first name
62. Livelier, more impertinent, bolder
64. Round holes in punched leather or cloth for threading a lace, or string through.
66. Acrobatic stunt plane's manoeuvres
69. South Indian pancake
70. Improvement measures or trends
73. Minor argument
74. Synthetic fibres used to make Kevlar
75. Southern constellation located between Scorpius and Triangulum Australe (means "altar")
76. Benjamin, Olympic winning (with Tanith Hill) ice skater
77. A tonic or a restorative: Pick- (2,2)
78. Put forward for consideration
79. Stagger OR wind thread onto a spool
Down
1. Collection of small items of sentimental value
2. Pea, bean or lentil
3. Occupation of a person who prepares the surface of a NHL match
4. The next qualification after a Ph.D. but shorter (4-3)
5. Croatian coastal city (second largest in country) possibly divided
6. Initially, a massive American labour organisation
7. Former US Supreme Court jurist. Passed 2020 (4,5,8)
8. River in Vietnam OR Brazil OR Ms Cortez (b. 1988), Filipina actress and comedienne
9. Leaks slowly
10. "Bewitched" Samantha's daughter
11. Yoshi, Japanese actor and comedian OR Isiaki, Chief of Air Staff of the Nigerian Airforce
12. Clear structure at the front of the eye
13. Mr Kristofferson (American country singer) or Mr Kringle (No introduction necessary)
19. Margarine
20. Eugen (b. 1937) Moldovan composer OR Alessandro (b. 1975), Italian footballer
25. English New Wave band "The Look of Love"
26. US automobile manufacturer, maker of the Pacer, Gremlin, Hornet (inits)
27. Auxiliary power source to provide extra thrust for a rocket to escape gravity after take-off
28. Insanity, madness AND the north Yorkshire village from which the term arose
29. Automobile body-type with no fixed weather protection for occupants OR Cadillac model 1930-40
31. Hermit
32. Accompanies
33. An ethnic German living in the Czech lands of the Bohemians prior to 1938
35. Desert fertile spot
37. Cattle enclosure in South Africa
39. Grain type
41. Initially, a cash dispenser
42. Consumed
44. Mr Lennon's middle name (second time around)
51. Popular light source before electrical circuitry introduced into housing (3,4)
52. Stage name of American rapper once married to R&B singer Kelis Rogers
53. Hawaiian garland
55. Mentor
57. Donkey that lives in 100 acre wood
58. Stinging insect
59. Mr Bean, no, not that one, the serious English actor not the comedian
61. Layman who lives in a monastery OR Flattened at the poles
62. Upright timbers in interior walls to support drywall or laths
63. Took a school or university exam again
64. Dutch cheese
65. Isaac's son, Jacob's brother
67. Semi-circular recess in a church, usually with a domed roof
68. Initially, aircraft that needs little or no runway to become airborne
71. Attach a label to something
72. 1979 American movie starring Sally Field: "Norma ___"