Crockery gives cheek to central person (7)
I believe the answer is:
saucers
'crockery gives' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are plural nouns, I don't see how they can define each other.
'cheek to central person' is the wordplay.
'cheek' becomes 'sauce' (I've seen this before).
'to central person' becomes 'rs' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'sauce'+'rs'='SAUCERS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for saucers that I've seen before include "Items of crockery" , "part of service?" .)