Great passion consuming sweets after a turnover? (5-4)
I believe the answer is:
first-rate
'great' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'consuming sweets after a turnover?' is the wordplay.
'consuming' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'sweets' becomes 'irst' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'a turnover?' indicates an anagram (I've seen 'turnover' mean this).
'after' with letters rearranged gives 'frate'.
'irst' going into 'frate' is 'FIRST-RATE'.
'passion' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. It may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for first-rate that I've seen before include "Prime" , "Start fire to be really excellent" , "Of the highest excellence" , "Top-class, excellent" , "Top-notch, excellent" .)