14ac - "A bit of mutton and trifle no longer popular in the East End?" (5) - is it GIGot or JIGot? I prefer jigot, but they both mean the same thing and I can't get the trifle reference. Help needed.
Gig is an obsolete word for a whipping top (whipped top); a trifle has a whipped top of cream! After much confusion such as you felt, jocon, that's the conclusion I came to, but it's a very obscure bit of reasoning!
Thanks for your thoughts - I have entered as "jig" on the basis of Chambers' definition: "jingle or piece of doggerel", construed by me as a trifle. I'm not really happy, though - gigot seems to be the main entry for the mutton reference. We have to wait and see.