| TARTETATIN | Fruit pie cooked with covering of caramelised pastry (5,5) |
| EPICARP | Piece of fruit pie cooked and served with carp (7) |
| ENTICEMENT | Carrot stick with covering of peanut oil oddly ignored (10) |
| DEEPROOTED | Hard to rip up books with covering letter for my boss |
| SAFETYPINS | Spring wire clasps with covering catches, made so as to shield the point when closed (6,4) |
| CROUSTADES | Pastry shells for fillings such as pt, gravadlax with soured cream, smoked salmon, caramelised apple, custard or Armagnac-soaked prunes (10) |
| OUTPATIENT | Visitor treated to eat nut pie cooked without base (3-7) |
| ORBS | Rings of gold with covering of brass (4) |
| PEPERONI | Open pie cooked with last of ginger and spicy sausage |
| IVIED | One struggled with covering of creeper |
| GOLDPLATING | Doll to tip gang off with covering of carrots, say? (4,7) |
| SCULPT | Old school with covering of persistent mould |
| TATIN | French tart of caramelised fruit, named for two Parisian hotelier sisters (5) |
| REPLICATE | Make another pie cooked with claret |
| EPICURES | They know about eating pie cooked with preserves |
| EPICURE | Gourmet pie cooked with salt (7) |
| TOFFEE | confectionery made of caramelised sugar (6) |
| BRITTLE | Word for something hard yet easily broken, such as a toffee-like confection of caramelised nuts (7) |
| BEAM | Smile, with covering Democrat breadth of support - w 3dn (4,5) |
| WIDTH | Smile, with covering Democrat breadth of support - w 6ac (4,5) |
