FOOD and DRINK-themed crossword No. 04
by Eddie and Jo James

Across

1Use a club for egg, flour and liquid mixture? (6)
5Slice of meat, as the director says (3)
7Pillage a dry white wine, historically! (4)
9Bullion broken up with nothing inside makes a stock/broth (8)
10Inside grape, a nutritional seed that can be made into a sauce served with satay (6)
11Mad Des drumming up a desert of soft fruits in sponge (6,7)
12Unfortunately city aid produces tartness in food/drink (7)
14Tuscany wine makes one enter to sing to one! (7)
16Type of lettuce in sticky stuff – a sugar from e.g.dried grapes (7)
18Overate – like Olive, perhaps? (7)
21Len involved with BBC scandal – white-grape only wine (5,2,6)
24Retailer, we hear, of a place to keep wine (6)
25Icebergs in the salads? (8)
26Leaves meals? (4)
27As crudités are inside prawns (3)
28South East gets no different seeds (6)

Down

2Plants with bitter juice seen round saints' 'eads?
3As excess fat might be, possibly mid-term (7)
4French potted meats – perhaps little in reserve (9)
5Is a pea able, we hear, to be a savoury snack? (6)
6Lukewarm pet I'd cooked! (5)
7Asti: man stirred – for staying power (7)
8Crete: gout rampant - from this marrow-like vegetable? (9)
13In America, lab researched a variety of broccoli (9)
15Passionate photographs in book good for keeping food warm! (3,6)
17In March, a blissful white Burgundy (7)
19Unfed, so concocted dishes of melted cheese (7)
20Spice Girl sad, like well-matured smooth wine (6)
22It's instrumental in fruit centre removal (5)
23Head of soccer side gets to cook food in the vapour (5)

Solution