9a Basic ingredient used to make cakes, biscuits bread, pasta and batter etc [5]
18a Seed of a cherry, peach or plum etc, or a granite object used in curling [5]
27a ----- Cottage; cookery school on the Dorset/Devon border etc [5]
40a All men ----- but not equally. Those who ----- by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity T E Lawrence [5]