Across
Academic who chooses to drop English? (6)
Reporter's criticising paper perhaps (8)
Head backs good history teacher (9)
Swimmer back on diet, losing weight ultimately (5)
Falsely report meat is packed in sets (4,7)
Unwelcome change to wages unions backed? (3)
Like a fox biting bird — seriously? (7)
People losing aspiration shortly (2,1,3)
Various birds on lake? (6)
Some film enemy carrying old weapon around (7)
Game of fifty overs (3)
Prisoners go out in sequence (11)
Cool air all round island (5)
Taste before guzzling fashionable fruit (9)
Refined Italian flower girl wearing hat (8)
Islands of ancient rulers, it's said (6)
Down
Least demanding ordeal by Bounty's captain, first to go (8)
Complain about holiday accommodation the French neglected (5)
Article carried by Oxford rowers principally? (3)
Composer Bernstein is sorrowful, though not entirely upset (7)
Newspaper bosses urge ban on scurrilous leader (5,6)
Party chief visits home twice near a region of Asia (4-5)
Go for a spin, finally reaching almighty speed (6)
Barney erupting in the vicinity (6)
American transport operation set up, covering New York state (4,7)
Adviser about to draw in two-thirds of Conservatives and Liberal leader (9)
Queen in tight spot showing lack of generosity (8)
Sally astride horse in skimpy garment (7)
No end of food during a meal (6)
Singular rejection of schoolboy error (4-2)
So-called architect, one involved in house with no roof (5)
Best man oddly ignored foreign character (3)
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