Special, Sunday 13 Aug 2017, El Commandante

Three answers per commenter (Annotations compulsory) till 6 PM
Please provide all your answers in one comment.

Starred clues have no definition but they all belong to the same category.

ACROSS
1   *Found in Pilska, Bulgaria (5)
4   Soldier holding guard, is terrier's helper (9)
9   Radioactive H? Track it with 50% barium (7)
10 *Yes! bounder is stripped (7)
11 Wet film covered nothing! (5)
13 Sodium and salt mostly are part of Rhinology (5)
15 NA half section of grass covered surface (3)
16 Constantly annoy an old horse (3)
17 *Demented pariah after losing his head (5)
19 Old money found in almost all of this country (5)
21 Complaint if cryptic clue is unclear at the end (5)
23 *Leading stormtroopers occasionally flew into Austria (5)
24 That man's greeting me at first (3)
25 Wombat's flying mammal (3)
26 *Small articles (5)
28 *Greeting with article and ring (5)
29 Applauded first contestant to cross the finish line 401 m ahead of the rest of the field (7)
31 *Melting Glaciers are no longer cold here (7)
33 *Primarily not used, kept up alongside a wandering foal (9)
34 *Medic hid an alter ego (5)

DOWN
1   *Hunk mad at breakup (9)
2   * Maybe I jingle internally (7)
3   This is worn oddly in Algeria (3)
4   *American man (5)
5   Demure hungry sloth is sleepy finally (3)
6   *Hear the hindu universal consciousness (5)
7   Forgetfulness of confused men in Asia (7)
8   Model trade patterned surface of tyre (5)
12 Odd-toed ungulate that a pirate captured (5)
14 Necktie joint (5)
18 This crime is a radical issue (5)
19 Sudden loud verbal attack (5)
20 Tight Marco took girl to department head (9)
22 Trim defender ensures reduction in resources (7)
24 Harass a man Dr H.K. Pence (3-4)
25 Author a meat product (5)
26 Separated initially is a reddish-brown (5)
27 * A song in North India (5)
30 Pair on the contray old Dutch (3)
32 Jazz around. By God! (3)

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Special, Sunday 01 Jan 2017, El Commandante

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Enjoy this 25 x 25 Special by our new setter El Commandante. Bouquets and brickbats welcome.

FOUR answers per commenter till 2 PM.
Please provide all your answers in one comment.

ACROSS
13 Man to place something on a surface noisily for a Physicist (8)
14 Extra thin glassy coating applied on pottery (9)
15 Converted twelve, head west for victory material (6)
16 Blue blooded sign without energy to track lost king in melee (10)
17 Dark one got off (5)
18 Violinists will do this to accept credit (4,1,3)
19 Cheers! Alcoholics Anonymous sozzled complaints (8)
20 Returning reference held second-mentioned toady (9)
21 Peaceful dry quarter (6)
22 365 days no good over Indian hungriness (8)
25 Superior maybe right type of fish (5)
27 Rate jug holding some drink at the end (5)
30 A very large number not sick in Israel (4)
32 Merit of scrap in grouse on ship (10)
36 Pleasure trip's a process section of the week (7)
37 Cast over a short key chest (6)
39 By accident hang other reps as they study individual cultures of mankind (13)
40 Hopelessness as returning editors held special on knight's crazy ends (11)
42 A citizen's distinctive doctrine? Patriotism? (11)
44 Goes into  tizzy, and Ash zaps her irregularity (13)
47 Roman statesman's measure (6)
48 Free legal service for Irish singer (3,4)
49 Coach after tea is sweet at heart (4,6)
50 I am a small multifaceted religious teacher (4)
52 Communication in the past quarter without our neighbour (5)
53 Cutting a cross in Germany (5)
55 'You go' said short slave East European (8)
58  Tapeworm in a tea! Not in order (6)
61 Two Gulfs and two Bays make up this main! (6,3)
64 Measure, definite characteristic of an Ibex (8)
66 Land owner took umbrage at heart over large arboreal rodent (8)
67 Plant variety in Diana's bed (5)
68 Consul in trouble over victory action lost statute in violent turmoil (10)
69 Prairie restoration held something more spacious (6)
70 Palm nodes destroyed central portion of cell (9)
71 Despatched containing joint mass consignment (8)

DOWN
1   Have Irish Catholics refused in pairs to attend to locks (8)
2   Oh Dear! Karnataka is not here (6)
3   Russian pastries made by sufi master at Kozhikode lost without last four (8)
4   Alpha roster's ancient lighthouse (6)
5   Teenager's almost satiated all primed up and vigorous (8)
6   Albumen stirred without mass is another mass of particles (6)
7   Just for example a boxer on a train by arrangement (11)
8   One in need with a new garter cut in half (6)
9   Agree to short term on the day before (6)
10 When women agree internally it produces a reaction (6)
11 Stir fry Zinc, Aluminium, Titanium, Radium with Calcium! (8)
12 Crazy jointer lost some time to put things back together (6)
23 Able to keep memories about a temporary shelter I have (9)
24 Spore bearing mass of a puffball found in jungle bamboo (5)
26 One in Karnataka or a Maori greeting of good health (3,3)
27 Across's jurisdiction (9)
28 At first you're usually patient after the doctor said stop talking (3,2)
29 Oddball from the European Commission with stated focus (9)
31 Scarves to recreate types of stitches (9)
33 Cold-shouldering of some tribes, primarily an act of apartheid (9)
34 Creative in general with promissory notes (9)
35 Rocky putsch is to settle in part (9)
38 Easy twins manufactured Pianos (9)
41 A cross initially held in a book of the Old Testament, Indian-German Mathematician (6)
43 Class of elementary particles leapt out (5)
45 Spirited variable established by youth (5)
46 Manage after relating to N or S is an instrument (11)
51 Model male relative arrested returning Indian (8)
54 Distressed Gaul went into prolonged state of deep sleep with this complaint (8)
56 Protein chunk for all to see on endless line (8)
57 Song transported having just taken off (8)
59 Free returning auditor resigned (6)
60 Distinctive character over an alternative for appearance of coloured lights (6)
61 Fail to justify loud faith (6)
62 In a pretensiously posh way the french princess danced away at first (2-2-2)
63 Took a chair on a returning vehicle used to find directions (3-3)
64 Turnover if primarily nothing is hot at the end (6)
65 Internally uses a mexican seasoning (6)

Across Lite version can be accessed at EL COMMANDANTE 1

Enjoy.

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