| ADOSE | _ ___ of reality (Wake-up to the real world) |
| LETITBE | Song with the lyric "I wake up to the sound of music" |
| GETREAL | Wake up to the facts of situation from most of unfortunate telegram (3,4) |
| ROUSE | Wake up to the new euros (5) |
| TAMEIMPALA | He sings "Journey to the Real World" on the "Barbie" soundtrack |
| UPSIDE | The ____ Down, alternate dimension to the real world in sci-fi series Stranger Things (6) |
| IMPALA | Tame , music project led by Kevin Parker that released "Journey to the Real World" for the Barbie film soundtrack (6) |
| GOONADATE | Take things from Tinder to the real world, say |
| UNIVERSITY | - of life; experience gained from the real world as opposed to education (10) |
| NOEL | Oasis guitarist Gallagher who recently dedicated a gig to "the real royal family," the cast of "The Royle Family" |
| TREKKER | "To boldly go" fan but who still has both feet on the ground in the real world! (7) |
| AMAYA | "The Real World: Hawaii" contestant Brecher (hint: the middle three letters of her name are a month) |
| MOLY | Magical Homeric herb used by Odysseus as a countercharm against Circe's spells, identified in the real world as the snowdrop or a species of allium, commonly called golden onion, lily-leek or sorcerer |
| REALM | "In the _ of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm ... in the real world all rests on perseverance" |
| OUTIE | "Severance" term for the part of one's psyche that can exist in the real world |
| EXISTING | To be found in the real world (8) |
| MIMESIS | Representation of the real world in literature and art |
| SIM | Any computer game which seeks to replicate the real world |
| HERE | Present some of the real world (4) |
| IVORYTOWER | Vote I worry about in place of retreat from the real world (5,5) |
