Patisserie items are wrapped in piece of cling film (5)
I believe the answer is:
cakes
'patisserie items' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'are wrapped in piece of cling film' is the wordplay.
'are' becomes 'a' (short for 'are', historical unit of measurement).
'wrapped in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'piece of' says to take the initial letters.
'film' becomes 'Kes' (I've seen this before).
The first letter of 'cling' is 'c'.
'c'+'kes'='ckes'
'a' inserted into 'ckes' is 'CAKES'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for cakes that I've seen before include "bars" , "Bakery products" , "Tasty food" , "eg Dundee, Madeira etc" , "Pastries" .)