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)

He’s reached out to embrace the first and last storyteller (12)

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)

Cast get outside in shade (5)

Element of greeting left out by commander (7)

Husband under-performing – start of deep division! (7)

I’m surprised youth hostel’s in stream (2,4)

Loosely-built band, unprofessional, no heart (6)

Painful digital device from Tom’s gang? (10)

Plant that tastes awful? Not quite with calcium (5)

Manipulative type – ‘elevated darling protected by aristocrat’ (9)

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)

Tubular operation is our next resort (9)

‘RI’s out’ – wayward, historic St Lewis’s people? (8)

Before the birth of China, right, Etna erupted internally? (8)

Collect a jazz pianist (6)

Scold Democrat Sharp (6)

Macho bar chain (5)

Music genre expert finally achieving pitch (4,4)