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Across
1 Swine (pair, possibly) in mire (4,3)
5 Crossword compilers are dogs (7)
9 Ties, say, and whips animals (7,3)
15 Singularly expressed alternative form of contract not strictly legal! (10,9)
16 Extortionate former player (7)
17 Having damaged wings, loth to fly in sunlight (5,4)
18 For a gentleman about 50 to tell a story is not so shrewd (7)
19 TV still made easy (3,2,4)
20 Speculating on profit from Ernie, real punter splashed out (15)
21 If charm does become upset, Caesar was warned against it (4,2,5)
22 Avoid taking the team for a walk (8)
24 George has diagram number about the globe (10)
27 A looser form of spray (7)
30 Defeated, being half-baked, perhaps (6)
32 Boy's title role (6,4,10)
37 Eastern sky wet round Florida port (3,4)
38 Passes English, then fails to maintain standard (7)
40 One with a ticket for The Surgeon's Knife? (7,4)
41 They're taking things up again (11)
42 Shrink, quaking, from a god (7)
43 He composed at Manse (7)
45 Sinner who can't be penalised enough, apparently (7,3,10)
47 Happen to ascend (4,2)
49 Started arranging foursomes (7)
51 Therefore store ordered 50 for a source of vitamin D2 (10)
54 Grudge carried to fatal lengths (8)
57 One sussing out the square of the hypotenuse? (11)
60 Member of an American sect who gives the saviour a theatre article (15)
62 Crude oil found by civil engineer in past geological period (9)
63 Theatre as a place for oracular pronouncements (7)
64 Serenades with a guitar, perhaps, and flatters (5,2,2)
65 A liberal goddess succeeded building strong bases (7)
66 Old measure of light clan leaders identified in revolutionary hymn (13,6)
67 The pile Anne made very big (11)
68 Some medicine appears to act on wise men (7)
69 Bad example or examples (7)
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Down
1 Fortunately you may have it to start with (9,4)
2 Gave up a base to house agent in trouble (9)
3 Father has some characters employed by the fourteen men (7)
4 Study after army manoeuvres reveals courageous defender (4,6)
5 Confess twice in prison (4,4)
6 Lanterns cut out, letting some light through (11)
7 Recording makes two players rich (9)
8 Copper of unusual quality (7)
9 Fisherman's target if phrases get changed (9)
10 An entertainer with little heart is testy (7)
11 Hence the current attraction (16)
12 Team's role, possibly, in making plastic like rubber (9)
13 Worker having to carry an aardvark (3,4)
14 Does he use his nails in trying to win? (7,6)
23 Something shady going on at the top? (3,6)
25 Attention to these and you should hear something to your advantage! (9)
26 Gossip with female key-holder (10)
28 A stand-in for the rogue star (9)
29 Future sentence for fool with emetic? (Macbeth would have jumped it!) (4,2,4)
31 Having neither moisture nor any entertainment value? (3,2,4)
33 Sanctified knowledge among food for the Buffs (4,5)
34 Abandon watercourse (5)
35 Feudal superior, say, the back part being in cover (5-4)
36 As court does, rising to consider verdict that's logical (2,6,2,6)
39 Behave affectedly with a rising author (5)
41 No mistakes so far - until now (5,2,2,4)
44 Letters in the Attic (5,3,5)
46 Bright at night cheating the Excise-man (11)
48 Northern US fighter (7,3)
50 Bikini, perhaps, hidden by nurse as religious leader appears (9)
52 A fight one aims to win (3,6)
53 Their market could be a super one (9)
55 Made excursion by air and fell (7,2)
56 Selections for test - explosive device with bullets' sounds (8)
58 Little bit of stratagem by the French (7)
59 Admission of self-boredom upset retired academics? (7)
60 Encouraged by all those hip followers? (7)
61 Dad's wise to take a voyage (7)
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