Granite Crossword No.6
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Across

Company of the navy has food grain (4)
Seize pointless, reversing barge (4)
Pack together company's agreement (7)
11 Reprimand for checking (in America) (7,3)
16 Open land, space turns up (4)
17 Lover roared all over the place (6)
18 Pet, then came siesta, oddly (7,3)
19 Bait of French fish, we hear (5)
20 Brought forward release of Nevada CD (8)
21 Short accounts of one's cadet (peculiar looking) (9)
23 They generate heat about stage performers (8)
26 Trip stupidly initially, then fall (7)
28 Small amount of old inspectors turned round, concealed by mother (7)
30 A strange pallet shows you haven't passed your test! (1-5)
32 Hit the drink (5)
34 Weaponry makes hot, without Welsh leader (4)
35 Ill-mannered, but prudent, partly (4)
36 Healthy noise (5)
38 Beat Rangers, have your tea - how marvellous, initially (6)
39 Meat from a dog? No - it's backwards! (6)
42 Produced Dutch cheese backwards (4)
43 Composition of soup? (4)
45 Meteor crashes - operate the zapper! (6,7)
46 Lies around a place surrounded by water (4)
47 Unusually, I am balder, thus deserving of the highest esteem (9)
49 Free redhead inside, not tested (7)
51 "Preside and elevate" - this will take you to the top! (9)
55 Good person? The old you will get a swelling on the eyelid! (4)
56 Oddly, since after the iron age, they've provided news reports (5,8)
57 Dull, old fellow is misty, without head of government (4)
58 Hospital on the first of April, twice? It's a laugh! (2-2)
60 I f-felled d-dad stupidly? Nonsense! (6-6)
64 Informal, adapted core menu, reverses nothing in America (13)
66 Feel in one direction twice, with another one in between (5)
67 Plant that appears in broken pulpits, with Prince removed (6)
68 Support, but rest legs internally (7)
70 On edge, terribly worried initially, and restless (7)
75 Document from 1776 saying "LEAVE US ALONE!"? (11,2,12)
79 Takes illegally, coming back for something to sit on (5)
80 I'm at it before one on the South produces fakes (10)
81 Snaps at shop to run amok (6)
82 Gives money to put at your side, initially (4)
83 Colour of meagre yield (4)
84 Burden we combat without France (6)
85 Without fighting, mangled tape of a church (2,5)
86 Cover, having been unhorsed badly (8)

Down

Egg-shaped circles round five I doubt, initially (5)
Country Ronald returned to on the path (6)
Ludicrous? I might be (10)
Ennui of communist in a state of economic prosperity (7)
Let go Ursula! It contains things belonging to us! (4)
Charles, for example, might have new cost outside (6)
10 International organisation of company and artist concealing scar (6,6)
11 Tried some food and sat back on Edward (6)
12 Insect and animal are right for overseas aid initially, but given to church (9)
13 Capture in ruined art came before computer network (8)
14 Super! A nut cracked its relative (5-4)
15 Knock down to the bottom (5)
22 With clothes removed, and put back in red unit (4)
24 Rapidness starts moving a famous flag (5,3,7)
25 A group's opinion of an idea some fish had first (6,2,7)
27 Shellfish of strength, reportedly (6)
29 Hatch none in 300 - not unusual (7)
31 Do a play about cargo (7)
33 Never-ending simplicity in a C-minus (9)
37 Sign of duck workforce (4)
39 Docking room - reverse in at midnight (7)
40 Fidgety at 70, without Thursday or Wednesday, initially (5)
41 Terminate life of pointless talent (4)
44 Grassland is uncommon, we hear, in pie (7)
48 Thought I'd echo audibly, at first (4)
49 State of youth centre with returning headgear (4)
50 Stupid nonce in Venice causes bother (13)
52 Overcome half-dead achievement (6)
53 Peered at again, then did it once more (8)
54 The falling out (without middlemen) causes extreme care in spending money (6)
57 Insect living in French meadow... (4)
59 ...because I'm in favour (3)
61 Sultry ode could be jumping from one thing to another (9)
62 Distributing everything over the top in middle-age (9)
63 Go down (into liquid?) (3)
65 Resembling a celestial body, or just a famous one? (8)
69 Search or expel ruin (7)
71 Computer product that most houses have? (7)
72 Lab coat without a funny-looking element (6)
73 Veto is altered of a former union (6)
74 He left, for each one, an assistant (6)
76 Come through the door in a carpenter's (5)
77 Animal (shy) starts to purr uncontrollably (5)
78 Large-scale white picture has it inside (4)

Solution

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