ACROSS:
1 The upper hand taking off candy canes (10)
6 Power lies with a friend of religious leader (5)
10 This joins one in the tunes (6)
16 Very ill-considered skin disorder (4)
18 Spanish and English articles reveal flair (4)
19 Once covered a pewter mug without apparent ease (5)
21 Pulling hard together (7)
24 Elated having got a rise (8)
26 Allotted as indicated (8)
27 Fuss at the end of a Savoy performance (3)
28 Round type of bomb pointed to terrorists (3)
30 Stony-faced man? (5)
32 One of the brethren being fragrant when denied its endowment (3)
33 Find fifty in the family furnace (4)
35 Dismisses the employees for taking money (8)
37 Without an outward appearance? (8)
38 A woman will take nothing back in the main (6)
39 Bestows clothes (5)
41 Subject matter in law noted in interest (3)
42 Shoe, moccasin for one has excellent run (7)
45 Bent piece of metal attached to a pipe (5)
46 Agree not to say a word (3)
48 Criticises shows, we hear (7)
50 Add everything and knock a pound off (3)
52 Beaming all round with happiness (7)
53 Come about find by chance (6)
56 Job seeking (7)
57 Better, all right (3,2,3)
59 She'll be in wearing a medal! (3)
62 Deucedly difficult finally to find the river (5)
64 Permit such a service to be cancelled (3)
65 I'd come up with two fellows before one sect needing much skill (9)
67 Some numbers make up most of the clients (3)
69 Seen to be wrong about a Pole in Germany (5)
70 Note I am in a resort in America (5)
71 Still nothing in fight (4)
72 They give strong support one is clearly pleased by (5)
74 Silly person has to prepare for the function (4)
75 Catch the girl down below (6)
76 Move quickly this year (4)
78 Gulliver trades an organ for silver in prison (5)
79 Sour in finding the CIA backing our police in it (6)
82 Crawlers make little money in a sea-going vessel (4)
84 How Henry chases some little devil into Manipur's capital (6)
86 Oriental satisfies, rising in respect (6)
88 She comes in a little ahead of the rest (4)
89 Flowery material that's printed (6)
90 Going with some hesitation to tender (5)
92 A fish month for Jews (4)
94 Starting zooming around, George ranked extra badly in the Croatian capital (6)
95 Point where nothing's taken for drink (4)
96 Frequently expressed in decimal (5)
97 Is the politician inside with the mischievous ones? (4)
99 Here in France the Queen is more reserved (5)
101 Chancellor once declaiming a party line, loudly (5)
103 Do auditors partially belong to this organization? (3)
104 Descriptive of relations in a monastery? (9)
107 Soft prison sentence reversed - that's respected in Pakistan (3)
108 Old and wise American Indian (5)
110 Mid-morning tea for cash? (3)
111 Catching without cash and uttering warnings (8)
113 Aggregate and aluminium found in dynamite (7)
116 An unfashionable group from the start (6)
118 Ineffectual types – but no plonkers, these guys (7)
121 It's questionable if, after a century, this could get like a keg (3)
123 Party of corn-growers talk too much (7)
125 Sound loving when the business brings nothing (3)
126 New lidos are much admired (5)
127 Uses sin to divert a member of a Moslem sect (7)
129 Going on after lunch takes a long time (3)
131 Crowds lifeboats (5)
133 A rule I breached for Annie's dad (6)
135 King left on embankment in gold rush area (8)
138 Crowd abolishing franc (4,4)
141 Maximised in audio (4)
142 Two begin to track at start of winter! (3)
144 Dumbstruck (2,3)
146 Is this organization `U'? Certainly not! (3)
148 The sun has got round to the seat (3)
149 Imagine formerly being caught in vice organisation (8)
151 In this direction it's got set askew in no late setting (8)
155 Quietly debts dishearten landlady in reverential manner (7)
156 They've got something coming, presumably! (5)
157 A feature of Perpendicular churches (4)
158 Record notes that might be wounding (4)
159 Trust nothing but the coaches (6)
160 Canoe upset in open water (5)
161 Toothache which could get us in a too-glad mess (10)
DOWN:
2 Less bright, perhaps, and more dishonest (7)
3 Insensitive one, for example, displays no hesitation (4)
4 It can result when many stampede (5)
5 Talk irritaringly about getting one's wag back (3)
6 Letter from Greece seen repeatedly in Philadelphia (3)
7 Kiss and cuddle in a bad temper (3)
8 Man caught with the beer (4)
9 Left since the Nativity, the French spoon (5)
11 Film in which Dracula comes to fear sun setting (9)
12 Two lamps, perhaps, signify the days are coming to an end! (9)
13 Thus a little work will get you to the end of the big lough (3)
14 Scan for Incas' spread to somewhere in western California (3,9)
15 Sid's TV ad. about a Welsh cathedral town (2,6)
17 Place of secret laughter (6)
20 A bit of supper for each (3)
21 That race for the silver boughs? (4)
22 Dehydrate through the mangle? (6,3)
23 Negative article featuring the lay level of Oceania spirituality (3)
25 Point goes to loud American in a spot of trouble (4)
26 Given a stern direction when a measure is found to be short (3)
29 Oblique request to opposites - will they never meet? (5)
31 One got cross when one was put on a permanent road (5)
34 American-born Japanese helps to show this American is Eisenhower (5)
35 It is wrong in the firm to have a flutter there (6)
36 Double about to get lawyer back? Take another look at it (6)
40 The kicker - is he so confused? (4)
43 Annoy with stinging words? (6)
44 Tie torn coats (5)
47 The collection of curios may appear barbaric to many (9)
49 Transport overseas going wrong for her (7)
51 Spoken play presentations are stirring up road alarm (4,5)
53 It must be in the blood, exploiting big home loan (11)
54 Stiffly formal, quiet border (4)
55 Not entirely inefficient knife-rest (3)
56 Headgear sent back for a shoe? (3)
58 Lampoon is to finish with drink all round (4-2)
60 Decree I’d raised with king on tasteless articles (6)
61 The intelligence of a witch (3)
63 Detected first person to intrude over private lands (8)
65 Parliament sitting nearly every twenty-four hours (4)
66 Feel the picture well yield a clue (6-5)
68 Donizetti heroine starts with luxuriantly unequalled coloratura in arias (5)
71 Fibs fail to deflect sheriff's officers (8)
73 A long-playing one in Italy’s peaks (4)
77 They make pies in Pier 1 while catching some Z's (9)
80 You wouldn't credit it! (4)
81 Singer has wrong tune in reserve (9)
83 Indian songbird - not the genuine article (5)
85 Some abhor nettle - it stings (6)
87 Involve in late reorganization (6)
91 Alf and I can be unsuccessful (4)
93 City features in Black Lagoon remake (7)
97 Pious heart yields acknowledgement of debt (3)
98 Do stop advising me how to adjust my footwear! (3,1,4,2,2)
100 Inclination towards the platitudinous (4)
102 They go round to help on wash days (6)
105 It merits equal return (3)
106 Doctor in form over short appearance! (3)
107 Rubbished Europe endlessly like Hague? Well, no, actually (3-2)
109 The woman all on her own from choice (9)
111 Makes sure about? (4,2)
112 Sounds as if it's not the old bile that makes the girl so attractive (6)
114 Quash late story edition (3,2,4)
115 Lacking cover one goes under (4-5)
117 In America, the heartless teacher used to be behind the iron curtain (4)
119 Exhaust ESU? (3,2)
120 Grating sort of injury before end of play (8)
122 It's still produced in Russia (5)
124 Saw an odd place for a dam (5)
128 Imagines car park including sudden slope (6)
130 Reversed T almost all OK in a Russian name (7)
132 Either very broke or flush (4)
134 Long and slippery sure to make one feel young, I see (4)
136 Suffix with elephant (3)
137 Vessels were wrecked on the point (5)
139 Sound director made fun of (5)
140 Uppermost spinner (3)
143 Unhappiness all round during the weekend (3)
145 Every single one being bleached when bled away (4)
147 Refuse to take on someone to paint the girl (4)
150 Left three-fifths of bottle on table for wine class (3)
152 Throw is a bit short (3)
153 Always he loses his head in the presence of royalty (3)
154 He might find it darn awkward to be someone else! (3)
SOLUTION TO JUMBO CROSSWORD - 112
Across: 1 Sacerdotal, 6 Brisk, 10 Sloped, 16 Lino, 18 Spin, 19 Rerun, 21 Diction, 24 Vladimir, 26 Aspirant, 27 Och, 28 DII, 30 Vomit, 32 Goo, 33 Writ, 35 Pannikin, 37 Virtuoso, 38 Novice, 39 Inset, 41 Nab, 42 Regains, 45 Sadhu, 46 Sot, 48 Lies low, 50 MCV, 52 Laramie, 53 Breaks, 56 Spoiler, 57 Backchat, 59 OAU, 62 Cocoa, 64 Tis, 65 Machinery, 67 Tri, 69 Cross, 70 Omaha, 71 Chef, 72 Shrug, 74 Miff, 75 Noised, 76 Elon, 78 Toted, 79 Owlets, 82 Ugli, 84 Ostler, 86 Larder, 88 Clot, 89 Trysts, 90 Ingle, 92 Snub, 94 En bloc, 95 Pips, 96 Uteri, 97 Mets, 99 Kyoto, 101 Evict, 103 UFO, 104 Oppressed, 107 SDI, 108 Lapel, 110 Ask, 111 Sea horse, 113 Arc lamp, 116 Yorker, 118 Aqueous, 121 Una, 123 Auguste, 125 Ice, 126 Gaunt, 127 Ice floe, 129 Uni, 131 Orana, 133 Adding, 135 Recharge, 138 Sandbank, 141 Echo, 142 USA, 144 Leaps, 146 Ree, 148 Ier, 149 Mentored, 151 Omissive, 155 Bursary, 156 Macau, 157 Axes, 158 Odin, 159 Ensued, 160 Yetis, 161 Strong case.
Down: 2 A micron, 3 Rain, 4 Alvin, 5 Lil, 6 Bod, 7 Ism, 8 Spiv, 9 Kirov, 11 Last trump, 12 Primo levi, 13 E'er, 14 Dragon's teeth, 15 On to site, 17 Napkin, 20 Uno, 21 Down, 22 Chivalric, 23 NDA, 25 Inns, 26 Air, 29 In a go, 31 Minds, 34 Tibia, 35 Persia, 36 Insert, 40 Tssk, 43 Elects, 44 Awacs, 47 Clocks out, 49 Embargo, 51 Corridors, 53 Bag of tricks, 54 Ayah, 55 Soh, 56 Sun, 58 Kismet, 60 Airier, 61 Kif, 63 Oculists, 65 Mart, 66 Candle power, 68 Recto, 71 Calcutta, 73 Rely, 77 No set plan, 80 Elbe, 81 Stainless, 83 Grief, 85 Lilies, 87 Do-se-do, 91 Good, 93 Nucleus, 97 Mud, 98 Tour de France, 100 Year, 102 Virago, 105 Rap, 106 Sky, 107 Sheaf, 109 Phoenicia, 111 Selina, 112 Squeak, 114 Ludicrous, 115 Magdalene, 117 Otto, 119 Etude, 120 Gin rummy, 122 Mulga, 124 Ulnae, 128 Candid, 130 Inheres, 132 Asks, 134 Gory, 136 Red, 137 Epoxy, 139 Brent, 140 Neb, 143 Sea, 145 Smee, 147 Brag, 150 Tan, 152 Ist, 153 SOS, 154 Vis.