Across
What's not real? Defending habit, I'm saying it is (2,5)
Comic patter not right — starts to make tasteless crack (7)
Oscar avoiding comparatively humourless artist (5)
Safe from the flood — keeping daughter oblivious (2,3,4)
Sex? Nothing doing! (10)
Vale! Leaving disheartened, having failed (4)
Wrong! Isn't that easy going round now (4,7)
Meal that, for Spooner, needed something alcoholic (6,5)
Vlad crosswords reportedly finish off country (4)
Royal 'leper' under pressure — he's not himself (4,6)
Romeo in fix around college and university (9)
Cancel culture's ending? Heartless construct (5)
Comedian's back, one with incisive material (7)
Coming on, tries to be inventive (2,5)
Down
Working method required to cover large part of course (6)
Flourish of trumpets at the start — king entering queen's home (6)
Item turned up unbroken (10)
Nothing gained by rustic cricket shot (not one for purists) (5)
8! That's early in the morning for some into raves (9)
Next time — what about November? (4)
On record join Bread singer (4,4)
Accept some money for watch (4,4)
Like changes round pub — they work on the surface (10)
Telling crook about books (probably stolen) (3-6)
Leave home carrying penny metal fastener (5,3)
Event in Illinois accounted for uprising (8)
Bundle of energy upset a lot of the same nurses (6)
Suspend band on radio (6)
News in Brussels on current malaise (5)
Hard to stop virtuoso for long (4)
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