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.
Perhaps there's a link between them 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' is an insertion indicator.
'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' placed within '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" .)