2: The portrayal of things as they are in Mailer's novel (7)
3: Threatened males got perfect scores (7)
4: Closest home receives attention (7)
5: Delay American writer in South Dakota (7)
6: Difficult newspaper or novel (4,5)
7: Let not passion sway philosophers (3-10)
8: Illness I catch performing exercises? (13)
9: Fix the oil platform ... (3)
13: Try to trap me, a pro anyway, wont last forever! (9)
16: Bachelorettes wear indecent clothing to induce one to take a vow (5, 2)
17: Allow feathers to disappoint. (3, 4)
18: Feminine articles put in case (7)
19: Opponents of Vietnamese lost a TV war (7)
21: He wrote a bit of poetry! (3)