Across
Carefully considering one's options, unlike Charles the Fat, say? (8)
Sinister Tory lord returning at start of year (6)
Revival of addict, back with second award (13)
Spot man in house holding bomb? On the contrary (6)
Goliath running wild, inspiring northern hatred (8)
Possibly bitter about China supporter (10)
Top-class teacher having a lie-in? (4)
Music-maker's poetic invocation of lover in recital? (4)
Lusty deb drooled horribly (3-7)
Response to expulsion by university admitting not so much (5,3)
Seemed happy moving south — but deluded (6)
Head office exploiting position in Barbican perhaps (7,6)
The Speaker's faction expressed their disappointment? (6)
Unpromising areas in which son finds things to eat (8)
Down
Drugs making you a prima donna? (7)
Those curious poker yarns scoundrel initially concocted (4,7)
Children resulting from affair? (5)
Examined closely, as swordfish might be? (7)
A bishop trapped by two men in tangled vegetation (9)
Holy man in French island uprising (3)
Coppers accepting a new punishment (7)
S for sovereign? (4,2,5)
Catcher of worms, as the dodo was? (5,4)
Layabout upset by occasionally chaotic dancers (7)
Daughter in wig perhaps, having dropped an E? (7)
Beginner abandons most demanding challenge (7)
Lawgiver playing part in generalissimo's escape (5)
Ailment dispatching commanding officer? How awful! (3)
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