| GRATIN | Dish with a crust of toasted breadcrumbs or cheese (6) |
| AUGRATIN | Cooked with a crust of breadcrumbs and cheese (2,6) |
| POTPIE | Dish with a crust |
| PASTRY | Articles of food made of flour or dough collectively; the dough itself; a small individual cinnamon bun, eclair, gateau, millefeuille, puff, slice or other fancy; or, the crust of a galette des rois, |
| FLAKES | Chips of toasted maize; crystals of snow; crumbly bars of chocolate; eccentric people; small flat fragments of fish food or pastry etc; or, sparks (6) |
| SCAMPI | Langoustine or Dublin Bay prawn tails when cooked or prepared in breadcrumbs or other ingredients (6 |
| CROUTE | Small piece of toasted bread as the base of a type of canape (6) |
| PIE | A quantity of mincemeat, plum, pork or other food/fruit baked under a crust of pastry; or, depicted in a winterscape by Monet, a chattering black-and-white green-tinged bird whose short name in questi |
| ELITES | People in the upper crust of society |
| PUFFPASTRY | Papa has fry-ups cooked with fat and a crust of this (4,6) |
| SWEETIEPIE | Dessert dish with a crust that's held dear (7-3) |
| TACOPIE | Tex-Mex dish with a crust |
| SCAB | A crust of hardened blood and serum over a wound (4) |
| MEATPIE | Savory dish with a crust |
| IRON | It can get a crust of rust |
| BEE | This insect will swing on a crust of tartar (3) |
| CROSTINI | Small pieces of toasted or fried bread with a savoury topping eaten as a starter or canape; Italian, ' little crusts' (8) |
| VOLCANO | A vent in the crust of Earth or another planet or satellite, from which issue eruptions of molten rock, hot rock fragments, and hot gases. Also: the subject of this puzzle. (7) |
| RAREBIT | Chew a bite with rolls of toasted cheese (7) |
| KOULIBIAC | With crust of silk, filling of coulis initially baked in a fish pie |
