Across
Grand ball – test for sexism? (7)
Dire son following Norm Reed? (7)
Religious adherent back at university (5)
Electrical store vehicle carrying CIA top bananas (9)
Determined to correct bad article (10)
Peak seats quite near to the stage? (4)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
The B ROW is just behind the A row, so near to the stage
He’s reached out to embrace the first and last storyteller (12)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
A Z (first & last letters) in (HE’S REACHED)*
Boring thing, Nat, fatuously pursuing Sabrina? (9,3)
Bomb container (4)
Indulgent dip supplied by unreliable enterprise hit hospital (6,4)
Bar put under former Princess Court (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
INTER (bury, put under) + DI (late “princess”) + C[our]T
Cast get outside in shade (5)
Element of greeting left out by commander (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
HALLO less one L + GEN[eral]
Husband under-performing – start of deep division! (7)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
H + UNDER* + D[eep].- hundreds are an old administrative division, perhaps familiar from the Chiltern Hundreds
Down
I’m surprised youth hostel’s in stream (2,4)
Loosely-built band, unprofessional, no heart (6)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
GANG (band) + L[a]Y
Painful digital device from Tom’s gang? (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
[Tom] THUMB’S CREW
Plant that tastes awful? Not quite with calcium (5)
Manipulative type – ‘elevated darling protected by aristocrat’ (9)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
UP (elevated) + PET (darling) in PEER
See 24
Flare-up when away on holiday (8)
Society creep, one with a bad hand (8)
Foreign consulate at new city of Australia (10)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
CONSULATE* + N – Launceston is a city in Tasmania, named after the town in Cornwall
Tubular operation is our next resort (9)
‘RI’s out’ – wayward, historic St Lewis’s people? (8)
I haven't cracked this one yet — but Fifteensquared have:
Anagram of HISTORIC ST less RI, with the definition referring to the “Isle” of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides
Before the birth of China, right, Etna erupted internally? (8)
Collect a jazz pianist (6)
Scold Democrat Sharp (6)
Macho bar chain (5)
6d
Music genre expert finally achieving pitch (4,4)
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