Food and Drink
by Eddie James
(quiz-style clues)

Across

1/6 Effervescent, champagne-like drinks (9,5)
10 More commonly, salt-petre, a meat preservative (5)
11 Made from grouse or pheasant boiled in brown stock (4,4)
12 Also called forcemeat or farcé (8)
14 Oven-cooked joints of meats (6)
15 Hungarian sweet white wine (5)
16 In French, a dish of small round pieces of meat (8)
18 A Scottish pancake (4,5)
21 Devices for open-fire roasting (5)
24 Italian for shrimps (6)
26 Bierwurst, chorizo, wiejska, etc. (8)
27 Colourless, brandy-like spirit (8)
29 The smallest of the cultivated mushrooms (6)
30 Young chicken castrated and fattened for eating (5)
31 French sweet wine from Semillon and Sauvignon grapes (9)

Down

Black grape used in all great French wines except Beaujolais (5,4)
Small macaroon-like biscuit, also a liqueur (7)
See 25
Short name for an alcoholic spirit with beaten egg, milk, etc. (3)
Sort of food you cook in a hurry! (7)
To burst out (5)
Sweet velvety version of Oloroso sherry (7)
13 Coffee sediment after infusion (7)
17 Boned steak cut off the sirloin or rump (9)
19 Allspice or (one spelling of) a type of pepper (7)
20 Surface texture of Chinese-style noodles or spring rolls (6)
22 Large flat serving dish (7)
23 European edible flatfish (6)
25/4 Popular Scottish soup (4-1-6)
28 From which a 'natural' salt may ne evaporated (3)

Solution
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