Jumbo Crossword - 146

ACROSS:
1    Actors' commercial split, left characters to fend for themselves (4,6)
6    A little model highly regarded in India (5)
10    A runner might be needed for it (6)
16    Nothing on record showing company emblem (4)
18    It's not difficult to name a novel midshipman (4)
19    This flower is seen in the light (5)
21    A flying start for an impersonation? (4-3)
24    It’s out east, and a canoe flounders on a boa constrictor (8)
26    Hurts alien socialites? (5,3)
27    She may be seen during a lunar eclipse (3)
28    After a century it would be like a keg (3)
30    He dreamt of a heavenly ladder (5)
32    Right to laugh back and cheer (3)
33    Weight of a sun helmet (4)
35    Sweetheart who kept on sending Christmas presents (4,4)
37    Nice crop reaped for this blueblood in a ruling partnership (2-6)
38    Gorgeous place with a cavernous interior (6)
39    A ring of fractious kin steals, instigates, and squeals (5)
41    My friend last seen returning from jungles of Kohima (3)
42    I'm given appointments as duties (7)
45    Ben taken on a lake (5)
46    So this is the land of the march composer! (3)
48    I relate move to studio (7)
50    Some Romans disturbing the CID? (3)
52    Such clothing unlikely to be magnetic attraction? (3-4)
53    Curse Robin and all good-hearted characters (6)
56    Observe Scotland’s own inside, backing college student (7)
57    Paddy's Mini has run into trouble (8)
59    A month, in short which is a bit naughty (3)
62    Break out from her upturned arms! (5)
64    Terrible con for officer (3)
65    Almost sated again, fellow is glowing (9)
67    Carries most of sea-bird back (3)
69    After arrival, pair of ghosts making noise of frustration (5)
70    Couple of notes written about a southern resort (5)
71    Network keeping me quiet (4)
72    Love an opening, I am told! (5)
74    Japanese medicine-box with fashionable round openings (4)
75    Approached one with a colour, but not initially (6)
76    It may guide the traveller over deserts (4)
78    Tony puts King George, for example, about one (5)
79    Suffering from alternative distribution (6)
82    Table-top hill? Same if different (4)
84    Unethical perfume brought back by pupil (6)
86    Before this time in the past (6)
88    Girl back in the Welsh Valley she came from (4)
89    These creepers could be poisonous (6)
90    A very big automobile - a symbol of success in Hollywood (5)
92    Pesters the gee-gees (4)
94    Region of India's corny joke, dig? (6)
95    Letters of appointment (4)
96    Mopes badly in rhymes (5)
97    Rings off some to acknowledge clumsiness (4)
99    Prevalent yet uncertain? (2,3)
101    Manly chairman seen around the church (5)
103    Timber business finally failing (3)
104    Taken for a fit purpose (9)
107    Came together in Calcutta underground (3)
108    As a fool I do it badly (5)
110    Some Common Market countries - and the rest (3)
111    Anonymous, such a letter given no notice? (8)
113    In Rome, retreat for every ruler (7)
116    Most secure seats (6)
118    Built before many a boy! (7)
121    Refreshments not available when the lad is about (1,1,1)
123    It is his job to reduce friction (7)
125    Hurry back for the cask (3)
126    Lounges with three pupils around a circle (5)
127    Really goes too far! (7)
129    Feel it and find that it's illuminated (3)
131    Feminine part none can change? (5)
133    She's a little angel - inordinately good (6)
135    Forcing one to be courteous (8)
138    He remains detached in the main (8)
141    One secret agent describing snake infestation (4)
142    Musical backing in Bulgaria (3)
144    Homer's travail:  "I don't finish daily retreat." (5)
146    English ship-building character (3)
148    One artist in a secret army (3)
149    All things stemming from Eve's ruin (8)
151    Capital deprivation back in Cyprus (8)
155    Pile out when able to see a bird crossing (7)
156    Wild goose yarn? (5)
157    A Roman emperor, in a manner of speaking (4)
158    Military cap found in Lake Pitcairn (4)
159    Like bristles but fixed before English leader so returned (6)
160    Point old city out in narration? (5)
161    Sends a plea for reconstruction of sea-side walks (10)

DOWN:
2    A chap wants it with a mushroom (7)
3    Missing work in an online service (4)
4    Peel off with French leader on stretch of water (5)
5    Quite a lot to carry at high speed (3)
6    Bespectacled dwarf bringing nothing to capital (3)
7    The boy to sit around without saying a word (3)
8    Oho!  The music-maker's pilgrimage! (4)
9    As one spared the supreme sacrifice, is Monica finally over Bill? (5)
11    Artist chancellor found behind French backwater (9)
12    Somehow I land near a hormone (9)
13    Beat up a man (3)
14    It's blue drape that can lock so shabby (12)
15    Thy claim is false, it's not true! (8)
17    Uncouth person may go a lot astray (6)
20    Begin searching for water (3)
21    I put up with what sort of Amazonian language? (4)
22    Moved, thank Maud for a place in the Himalayas (9)
23    A distant return of foreign service (3)
25    Animals cross in the wrong one (4)
26    Inducement to small female singer (3)
29    Composer right off his evening meal (5)
31    Go steady at the tennis club (5)
34    Laugh over the thing one found in the Caribbean (5)
35    One comes at an end or before a soldier (6)
36    What one may see as victory when one gets to Jerusalem (6)
40    Shut up the apertures and go away (4)
43    Digging in, amid Chinese dynasty (6)
44    At ninety degrees to begin with, or hot for a change (5)
47    Carrying weapons is the pits! (9)
49    In summer it really is hot beside the Red Sea! (7)
51    Foreign nobleman disconsolate before rocket-launch (5-4)
53    It must be in the blood, exploiting big home loan (11)
54    Consider raising the reward (4)
55    Do auditors partially belong to this organization? (3)
56    It had the curate's partial approval (3)
58    Less than half are psychotic! (6)
60    Quantity spilt in cheerful lager drinking? (6)
61    It expresses disgust in rough terms (3)
63    Shares in the normal proceeds of society (8)
65    Run one! (4)
66    Feel the picture well yield a clue (6-5)
68    Customary objective we have you, and others, pursue (5)
71    Was successful as an improver? (4,4)
73    Very big state mountain in Thessaly (4)
77    It may be in a jam, blow it! (9)
80    English university that's "different" (4)
81    Languor of girl, one performing duet! (9)
83    Poetic postscript (5)
85    Don't take what's not perfect (6)
87    Spice girl at the head (6)
91    Business almost all fossil fuel (4)
93    Pests to cover in a supplement (7)
97    It's frequently curtailed (3)
98    American high school dance on conservatives' headlands (12)
100    Enthusiast taken aback by loud, tasteless slang (4)
102    Thus Ned ate whenever he wanted (2,4)
105    Suffix that is right? (3)
106    Hundred is outside the scope of this service! (3)
107    Timid gentleman clutches fly (5)
109    Very short introduction at home, so essential (9)
111    They'll find you a place though they're not completely pushers (6)
112    There'd be lots of time with 'er for removals (6)
114    Expedition leader with phoney bulletin is boiling over (9)
115    John raised essential points about old egg collectors (9)
117    Barker from Lhasa licks soap (4)
119    Girl upset Alice (5)
120    Oz with fruity environment? Cheers! (8)
122    Pancake student found in receptacle number one (5)
124    Tears right as one finishes (5)
128    Tell me why ten fish are battered, Sugar? (6)
130    Maximum pay of a potter (3,4)
132    Help with a Verdi opera (4)
134    Yarn's characters assembled for movie private (4)
136    One with the French surrounded by water? (3)
137    A leg's easily broken in such winds (5)
139    Variety of pear from the Channel Islands? (5)
140    One might adopt this over the Ouse, initially by instinct (3)
143    It could produce a spot of careless writing (3)
145    Scandal about the girl shortly found to be correct (4)
147    Information about love's beginning among the Scottish hills (4)
150    Compete in continental life (3)
152    Low place to tie up without a ring (3)
153    Run away from whisky bottle now open (3)
154    Start nothing before the work-out (3)

SOLUTION TO JUMBO CROSSWORD - 145
Across: 1 Antarctica, 6 Champ, 10 Adages, 16 Agio, 18 Laos, 19 Rehoe, 21 Butcher, 24 Go-go girl, 26 Emperors, 27 Ure, 28 Nae, 30 Cadre, 32 Ted, 33 Rusk, 35 Baby doll, 37 Rigatoni, 38 Gateau, 39 Reeds, 41 Nib, 42 Nureyev, 45 Erato, 46 Toe, 48 Matilda, 50 USA, 52 Booboos, 53 Deform, 56 Grinder, 57 Entwines, 59 OAU, 62 Try-on, 64 E'en, 65 Affecting, 67 RMO, 69 Padre, 70 Torsi, 71 Iman, 72 Tolti, 74 Path, 75 Naught, 76 Oily, 78 Cling, 79 Upends, 82 Imam, 84 Inrush, 86 Esther, 88 Mash, 89 Canine, 90 Aimer, 92 Elba, 94 Loiter, 95 Pleb, 96 Ernie, 97 Halt, 99 Gabor, 101 Betty, 103 Uno, 104 Tiredness, 107 Sum, 108 Moped, 110 Dye, 111 Gnat bite, 113 Finagle, 116 Way out, 118 Gaggers, 121 Psi, 123 Narrows, 125 Eda, 126 Quack, 127 Almoner, 129 Ess, 131 Hyena, 133 Eunuch, 135 Marjoram, 138 Manifold, 141 Tray, 142 Obi, 144 Riled, 146 Rye, 148 End, 149 Non-rigid, 151 Aesthete, 155 Trieste, 156 Radio, 157 Vlei, 158 Ida's, 159 Sonnet, 160 Ypres, 161 Ghost-story.

DOWN: 2 Nauruan, 3 Rahu, 4 Cagey, 5 Ago, 6 Coo, 7 Ali, 8 Marc, 9 Polar, 11 Demeanour, 12 Gregorian, 13 E'er, 14 Shot in the arm, 15 Mesdames, 17 Ignore, 20 Ore, 21 Burg, 22 Testimony, 23 Rna, 25 Gale, 26 Erg, 29 A bird, 31 Divan, 34 Kebab, 35 Bunion, 36 Levies, 40 Sear, 43 Ulster, 44 Eat in, 47 Obstetric, 49 Toenail, 51 Signature, 53 Depth charge, 54 Oafs, 55 Moe, 56 Gut, 58 Weeper, 60 Acquit, 61 Bon, 63 Optimist, 65 Arti, 66 Finger-print, 68 Maids, 71 In embryo, 73 Loan, 77 Yieldings, 80 Naan, 81 Shrewdest, 83 Mayan, 85 Untidy, 87 Hubbub, 91 Mobs, 93 Let me go, 97 Hub, 98 Logical minds, 100 Aspy, 102 Emigre, 105 Ede, 106 New, 107 Steno, 109 Pressures, 111 Guyana, 112 Tarred, 114 Apportion, 115 Liquorice, 117 Ankh, 119 Gwent, 120 Weaponry, 122 Naval, 124 Annoy, 128 Landed, 130 Scanter, 132 Emit, 134 Hyde, 136 Rid, 137 Mealy, 139 Fresh, 140 Let, 143 Boa, 145 Deep, 147 Hies, 150 Rio, 152 Sir, 153 His, 154 Tag.