Usual rules apply. Solution in January

ACROSS
1 Alpha male’s wake-up call? (4-1-6-3)
7 Play about a broken King Coal (4,4,2,5)
8 Female veneer (5)
9 Exotic tailpipe in regular use (5)
12 Bachelor with a prick, fair proportions (7)
13 In place (4)
14 Tint of hypocrisy (4)
16 Obsessed creep hunting prey (7)
17 A president, mainly, to stomach (5)
18 The status quo: tawdry box-ticking? (5)
20 Damning critique of both Genesis and We are the World (15)
21 Off-grid, axe (8,6)

DOWN
1 When bitter reality dawns (4,5,2,3)
2 Corrupt Toryism – a model is now China! (8)
3 To disembowel someone is backward (4)
4 It’s impossible to find port in Afghanistan (10)
5 Baroness Morgan of Ely has a case of wind (5)
6 Not reading while in bed: sign a man’s potential killer (8,6)
10 Quickly papers over debts in particular (10)
11 Sailor penetrates a fairy from behind, so the story goes (5)
15 Bully’s vehicle wrecked cart (8)
17 One jerk’s caper (5)
19 He created a floater (4)