CLUES ACROSS:
1. Neck complaint which is the subject of much litigation [8]
4. Creature whose existence is reported but which is considered unlikely to exist in scientific consensus [7]
7. Enormous [4]
10. Of historical Thailand [7]
12. Brief document to assist memory [4]
13. Nervous twitch [3]
14. Aquatic propulsion devices [4]
16. Roman formal wear [4]
18. Rock outcrop [3]
20. Blue [5]
22. Book for recording events in chronological order [3]
24. Persons of the male variety [3]
26. & 50 Down. Terms used in advertising suggesting more benefit to the consumer than can be factually demonstrated (two words, [6], [5])
27. Ability to transform into a wolf [11]
29. Device allowing access to sealed foods and beverages [6]
30. Cheered, diverted, entertained [6]
34. Visigothic king [6]
36. Divination using urine [8]
39. Advancement to the next round without having to contest [3]
40. Greek prefix meaning true, real or literal [4]
41. Achieved [4]
42. (Pharmacology) Alcohol / water mixture used as a vehicle for medicinal substances [6]
44. Australian version of Bigfoot [5]
46. Common abbreviation meaning as quickly as can be achieved [4]
48. Drains of vitality [4]
51. & 33 Down. Author of Chariots of the Gods? (two words, [3], [7])
52. Opening of the skull of a living person [11]
53. Walk in water [4]
55. Manipulation of aspects of reality by supernatural means [5]
56. Modern pagan religion [5]
57. Magnitude [4]
58. Moving objects with the mind [11]
60. Make a choice [3]
61. Specific period in time [3]
63. Distress signal [3]
65. Whooping Cough [9]
68. Combatant-status detainee (abb) [3]
71. Facile, non-complex, non-taxing [4]
72. Louse larva [3]
73. Author of Worlds In Collision [10]
74. From Greek oikos, prefix denoting house, household or family [3]
75. Greek goddess of the rainbow [4]
76. Fear of the number thirteen [17]
CLUES DOWN:
1. Insect [4]
2. South American lowlands [6]
3. To take an oath [5]
5. Paranormal character reading using the buttocks [9]
6. Divination through cheese [11]
7. A queen and a state [9]
8. Char or scorch with a hot instrument [4]
9. Typographical units [3]
11. Incorporeal, immortal essence of a person [4]
13. Hindu or Buddhist religious literature written in Sanskrit [6]
15. Phase of sleep [3]
17. Unit of inheritance [4]
19. Pseudoscience which maintains that all human culture derived from Easter Island after the flood which destroyed all living creatures except those on Noah’s ark. [9]
21. Deck of cards used to test for ESP. [5]
23. A cheat or swindle [3]
25. (From Carl Jung) Coincidence of events that seem to be meaningfully related [13]
28. Alternative abbreviation to AD [2]
31. Total [3]
32. Extinct bird [4]
33. See 51 across
35. Much-used internet abbreviation with several meanings [3]
37. To cut down grass or grain [3]
38. Born [3]
39. Any non-human animal [5]
43. Supernatural ability to speak a foreign language without ever having learnt it [10]
45. Interdict [3]
47. Location [5]
48. Military engineer [6]
49. Seeing pattern or meaning where it does not actually exist [10]
50. See 26 across
53. Literally “wise person” [6]
54. Washington’s locality [2]
55. Eucharists [6]
56. Pliable strand of metal [4]
57. Single portion of a calyx [5]
59. Greek prefix meaning upon, on, over, near, at, before or after [3]
62. Ancient letters of Teutonic, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian writing [5]
64. Acorn bearing tree [3]
66. Unwell [4]
67. Ancient Greek covered walk or colonnade [4]
68. Incidental employment benefit [4]
69. Slender and delicate object [4]
70. Weighted lariat [4]
73. Contend [3]