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37 BRA (support) in ELM (wood) reversed

45 (arreste)* SERRATE as in notched

Many thanks, Jono - those were very sneaky clues!

Jono. You can't be right on both the answers to 34d ! Dicki

Can anyone help with 5 dn: Admitted fish is eating starter of nothing ordinary (9). The answer is presumably “confessed”. The fish is “cod”, starter of nothing is “n”, so ordinary must be “fesse”. I don’t understand the last bit.

It's a heraldic term for an "ordinary". A bit obscure!

I’m trying to parse 8A. I have the answer and the first four letters but are the last 5 letters supposed to represent food? Feels very weak to me.

I think so.
Chambers has “supply of food” for that five letter word.

Thanks jono. Looks like you do this regularly. I’m finished but I thought this one had more than its fair share of dreadful clues!
30 definition “what could be Brighton”?
The 39a and 31d link ?
All of 43a?
50a?
The alternative word for dahlia in 33d
10 is supposedly a “big” island

Perhaps a setter who has forgotten that crosswords are entertainment?