A fine easy grid, except German was definitely a school subject for me...

Pastries is wrong??? Has to be "Types of pastries". Annoying to say the least. Otherwise nice. I liked "aftermath" mainly because I didn't want "math" to be an academic subject.

There is a problem with the school subjects and European languages categories, because there are five languages altogether and any one of them could have been a school subject.

JoeCool: Apologies for that. I didn't realize I had written that before I submitted the grid. There appears to be no way to edit or delete the grid now either.
Eddie and JonBob: That was the idea. I wanted people to try each and every combination. Red herrings and whatnot. I get where you're coming from and how it could be confusing, however.

You're only allowed 2 wrong guesses, which makes it impossible to try all the combinations.Bad.

I agree with JoeCool.

types of pastries is too specific as an answer

The school subjects could have contained any of the five languages – making it guesswork rather than logic, you could have got away with it if you had made it Russian, the most improbable to be taught in school. But you included Russian as a European language – which is isn't.

Pretzel is a bread not a pastry.