4 It might be said to be a means of getting in (4,6)
12 Simpleton at university found study hard (3,2)
16 Suffering from a lack of appetite, some while back (7)
17 Make a pass at woman after a lot of beer and a cocktail (4,6)
18 Company director - one involved with Paris and Rome (10)
19 Mum subject to prattle (7)
21 Just open for a drink (4)
22 Old saw that's lost its cutting edge (6)
24 A dean is drunk - it's the spirits (7)
25 Man the French love (3)
26 Dwarf fish (5)
27 Junior officers made to climb the mast (7)
29 Treasure Island character giving no quarter to ten lawyers in dispute (9)
32 Back-seat model displayed grief (4)
34 Animal outside came face to face with goddess (7)
37 Workers not opening tankers from OPEC? (6)
38 Blunders will reveal the defector in time (6)
42 She's got another girl's American backing (7)
45 Big order, only half sent (5)
46 Uniting after heated meeting (6)
48 Glad I cured this cold (5)
51 Country is nonchalant - up to a point (5)
52 Sent off - a chain letter, perhaps? (6)
53 Stop Shakespearian fools reeling around? (5)
56 Company frittering money about is not practising it (7)
57 Letter from Greek doctor, one supplying lozenges (6)
58 I should be when small (6)
59 Chap rigged up in new suit - naturally, it's a disaster (7)
63 Kind of tide one appears to contain (4)
64 Dotty technique used in naively (9)
67 Commissions Oriental car to distribute sand (7)
69 Be about to ridicule for method of persuasion (5)
71 One Italian girl (3)
73 In a ploy to avoid duty, girl is returning advance (7)
77 Flare of temper is just part of the act (5)
78 Palm wine brought back in a cask (4)
79 Is it due to this that the first car won't start? (4,3)
80 The copy writer (10)
81 A wretched situation for those not late (6-4)
82 However small, they should be worth their weight in gold (7)
83 My attachment to the sea is quite disreputable (5)
84 They provide correct measures for bartenders, say (10)

1 Baby one found in a farm building (5)
2 Boorish Northern king invading camp? (10)
3 A couple of low hills near Port Elizabeth (6)
5 Lords always taken in by an attendant (7)
6 Formerly self-contained and independent, but totally cut off (7)
7 Animal of uncanny alacrity (5)
8 It's a big step to take (6)
9 Effeminate niece's reform on the record (7)
10 Spirit you can add to cake (5)
11 Al Jolson's West Indain fruit? (6)
12 Tree from Vesuvius? (8,3)
13 A man fore-armed has such a nerve (5)
14 Withn an old metal spike I can take the Indian throne (4)
15 Soldier goes to ground. we hear - has to stop moving (8)
20 Queen as detective fiction writer? (6)
23 Could be the same or shorter but not any more (2,6)
27 Dams restricting river vessels (5)
28 Legal officer has no right to be sitting on a shield (7)
30 Left-overs which could provide sure aid (7)
31 As played by the advanced tennis player (3,4)
33 Sailor about in Malayan boat is well-proportioned (3,4)
35 Family men (7)
36 Children's author makes big sum with English (7)
39 Rose's Broadway beau (4)
40 Leaves in the middle of this Japanese ritual? (3,8)
41 Distress so amused demonic prince (8)
43 Exploit in dangerous expedition (3)
44 Further from a universal solution (4)
47 German city can be seen in all its glory in the beautiful month of May (3)
49 Ill-mannered at home and unpalatable (2,3,5)
50 Those lacking spirit cause many tears (5)
54 Eccentrics dancing every other night? (3,5)
55 Party displaying so much anger over a point (6)
60 New look for a composer (7)
61 A good tip for the writer? (7)
62 One of those hard times, years ago? (4,3)
65 The short answer is written up on the handle (6)
66 About to be given slightly leavened bread in biblical land (6)
68 Pillsbury's in-law gives up restraint, snatching a pawn (6)
70 Draw veil over couch to which one takes maiden (5)
72 A girl's get-up is an advantage (5)
74 Musical sign distorted Gigli's head and nose (5)
75 Name an easy victim (5)
76 Foreign agreement on Virginia island (4)