Jumbo crossword No 20

Across

1. Model craves 67 designer (7)
2. Sexy snap uncovered (3)
3. Starting comeback of French milk in Italy (7)
4. They are conveyers of very fine missing heroin (7)
5. Tory protected by legislation screening 81 money store (7)
6. Question terms of restrictive pub lease rhetoric - it’s said to represent letter (6)
7. Some time in the past you saw Fry naked  (4)
8. Dance exceptionally, without limits - cracking bottom! (7)
9. Spy caught baron, dope swimmer (3,4)
10. Officially concerning Church leader in Scotland and Monarch (2,5)
11. Wishes for future exams to include only the early bits of The Alchemist, Middlemarch, Emma and Nostromo (10)
12. United nil, first two for Newcastle (3)
13. American soldiers in prison area (7)
14. Partner, you are faced with a layperson (7)
15. They don’t count missing 17 (2,3)
16. …close to a round! (5)
17. Craft ‘special’ joint (4)
18. Fruit goes past its prime (5)
19. Reversing beer truck some distance (4)
20. Union a lie, clan disintegrating (8)
21. Reveals what’s behind low points (5)
22. Admitting centre of Blackpool colder and more offputting (6)
23. Starts off royal artwork detailing intricate unicorn symbolism that’s found in arms (6)
24. Shooter, origin of incident on outskirts of ULEZ (3)
25. Con foreign character returning dog  (3,2)
26. Name dropping in theatre district (4)
27. Encourage and help with cycling test (in realistic circumstances) (4)
28. Go, it’s on green?! (4,4)
29. 24 forgets the last of the Twelve  (4)
30. Some assassin in Japan (5)
31. Whirlwind blowing on round (5)
32. Drug king? (7)
33. Practices, removes evil energy forcing out ghost, essentially (9)
34. Ripped notice first we see of oncoming storm (7)
35. Lead in Othello, introduced by key part (usually female) (4)
36. Toy cars unwrapped, ready (6)
37. Sudden increase in business, getting one 1 down for another publication (4)
38. Nigel’s husband butchered language (7)
39. Mother in law, beast, intimidating figure? (7)
40. Eggs VAR, obscuring referee going after ball (3)
41. Public transport was busy, running in the wrong order (7)
42. Pulled it off, doctor deduces, with the involvement of church (9)
43. Report personal artwork seized by someone on vacation (5)
44. Finishing school for them, perhaps, lesson on the top floor? (5-5)

Down

1. One opposing white gang snubbed English breakfast? (5,3)
2. Old brass money chests (5)
3. Harry odd ally for Mum? (3,4)
4. On your own, thus pronounced ‘unhappy’ (4)
5. Present treasure chest unopened (5)
6. Top marks - international no 1 in forensics - no way! (2,2)
7. Supply all Brie free (7)
8. Empty sycophancy burst unbounded - it’s sickly sweet (5)
9. Ant’s mate covering bit of hot wood when Santa comes? (8)
10. Spades - nine? Wrong way up! (3)
11. Principal characters from Antony and Cleopatra close to finest performance  (3)
12. Tiger who eats cereal with Yankee lost weight (3)
13. John, a district attorney, somewhere in North America (6)
14. Large number distributing handouts (8)
15. System of weights regularly lifted at BrNo gym (4)
16. The Reverend’s serenade, perhaps - plucky thing - best quality! (4,4)
17. Tony, eponymous gangster soak, controlled 25 (7)
18. Computer department, a lonely hollow place (5)
19. Train tours are rearranged (8)
20. Quiet monkey eating green veg  (7)
21. Paper Towns is my essay subject, principally (5)
22. Sun viral article finally translated for everyone (9)
23. Spooner’s millinery is in his true character? (2,5)
24. Regret a ruckus involving rampant cleric (6)
25. Measure beams, but only on the inside (4)
26. Making record of hard-hearted lack of substance (7)
27. One afternoon, in recent times (3)
28. Delivered second-class or first for next-day? (4)
29. Provokes heartless deities (4)
30. Trivial, without beginning like a pedant (4)
31. Modifies complicated mod rules (8)
32. Half-cut address preceding evil worship (7)
33. Hearty? (7)
34. On top of topless fan (4)
35. Secret agent concealed tip of épée - made corset stiffer (5)
36. European feeding trough rolls around (6)
37. Totally sick ingesting sodium (2,3)
38. Given shoes, restored, reportedly (6)
39. Correspondence writer is on the up, welcomed by the Spanish (5)
40. Mindless followers go hard in revolt, supporting extreme character in riots (5)
41. Indiana Ambassador’s source follows vehicle collecting unknown eastern ruler (7)
42. Throw out net, capsizing less than five days per week (4-4)
43. Publicity expectations exhausted reliable force (8)
44. More or less archaic dancing - no laugh! (5)
45. Cryptic guru without limits - a head for anagrams, infinite ace, revolutionary voice (9)