| PIESHELL | Lower crust of a pastry |
| SIMA | Rock forming the Earth's lower crust |
| PIETIN | It can be found beneath the lower 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, |
| LID | Top crust of a pie |
| SCAB | Protective crust of a wound |
| ARC | Crust of a pizza slice, geometrically |
| SHELF | She takes the crust of a loaf ? in the larder? (5) |
| ORE | Deposit in Earth's crust of a valuable mineral or gem that can be extracted profitably (3) |
| 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 |
| BOAT | The shape of a pastry barquette; or, a jug for sauce such as gravy (4) |
| TARTLY | How criticism of a pastry chef might be delivered? |
| ECCLES | Greater Manchester town known for the invention, in 1793, of a pastry filled with dried fruit (6) |
| CANNOLI | Sicilian dessert of a pastry shell filled with sweetened ricotta (7) |
| MUDPIE | Soil and water made playfully into the shape of a pastry dish (3,3) |
| 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) |
| NOSWEAT | Garnishing on a thick crust of sweet piece of cake (2,5) |
| KOULIBIAC | With crust of silk, filling of coulis initially baked in a fish pie |
| GRATIN | French culinary term for a dish, such as dauphinoise, with a browned crust of breadcrumbs or cheese (6) |
| IRON | It can get a crust of rust |
