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8 across nothing in full overstated ???e
14 across spreading round face painter first r?d?a?
18 across certainly going in the wrong
direction, one French leader
absent o? c?u?s?
2 down over inch out on British Airways b???c?i

and why please

18a OF COURSE - Off Course minus F (French leader)

2d BRONCHI (Airways) - BR(itish) + Anag. of Inch

8 Love (nothing) in clue

14 Radial

RA (Artist) Dial (Face)

2d Should have been BR(itish) + O(ver) + Anag. of INCH

14a RADIAL - Painter = RA (Royal Academy) + Face = DIAL

8a (ful)L OVE(rstated)

THANKS brendan and mamya

Glad to help. I think the definition in 2d 'airways' is brilliantly disguised.