Chartered surveyor consuming alcohol and favourite cakes (8)
I believe the answer is:
crumpets
'cakes' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both things that one consumes for nourishment as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'chartered surveyor consuming alcohol and favourite' is the wordplay.
'chartered surveyor' becomes 'CS' (abbreviation for chartered surveyor).
'consuming' indicates putting letters inside.
'alcohol' becomes 'rum' (type of alcohol).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'favourite' becomes 'pet' (synonyms).
'rum'+'pet'='rumpet'
'cs' going around 'rumpet' is 'CRUMPETS'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for crumpets that I've seen before include "Soft toasted and buttered cakes" , "Spectrum (anag)" , "Teatime fare" .)