| 20 answers for: Food such as butter, jam, Marmite or pate applied ... |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| SPREAD | Food such as butter, jam, Marmite or pate applied to bread; a double page; bedcover; or, a feast (6) |
| FESTAL | Befitting a gala or a feast which four leave |
| PUFF | A cream-filled pastry; a cloudlet of smoke; a quilted bedcover; or, a velvet or feather pad in a powder compact (4) |
| STEWPAN | A casserole, daubiere, Dutch oven, marmite or other pot in which to slow-cook meat/vegetables (7) |
| BLANKET | From the Old French for "white", a bedcover or manta; or, a layer of something such as bluebells, cloud, fog, snow or whale blubber (7) |
| FATS | Foods such as butter and lard |
| TOASTS | Word for "cosily warm", in allusion to bread browned before a fire; or, a name for a hot grilled cheese sandwich, aka a croque-monsieur or a melt (6) |
| QUINCE | Pome related to apples, pears and medlars, served in the form of membrillo with cheese, game or pate (6) |
| EARNER | Cook nearer to bread maker? (6) |
| RANCID | Rank, as butter (6) |
| RENDER | Clarify, as butter |
| CREAMS | Beats together, as butter and sugar |
| SOFTEN | Melt, as butter |
| MELTED | Prepared, as butter for popcorn |
| LAYER | A shoot/branch bent down to take root; a thickness of butter, jam etc spread over a surface; or, a stratum (5) |
| POLL | Word for the head originally, later a counting of heads or votes; the scalp or pate; a hornless animal; a hammerhead's striking face; a pet parrot; or, an Oxbridge passman (4) |
| SPREADER | Spatula or knife for applying butter, jam, icing etc; one who disseminates gossip, news or viruses; or, a farm machine for scattering manure (8) |
| LOAF | Word for a batch, bloomer, boule or other baked block of bread, synonymous with brains/sense, due to "bread" rhyming with "head" (4) |
| CENTRESPREAD | Double-page newspaper feature (6,6) |
| SCHALKBURGER | Rugby player at school - a vacuous lock wedded to bread roll (6,6) |
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