Savoury mince of game the hotel put out (9)
I believe the answer is:
croquette
'savoury mince' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both things that one consumes for nourishment as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'game the hotel put out' is the wordplay.
'game' becomes 'croquet' (croquet is a kind of game).
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet).
'put out' suggests deleting specific letters.
'the' with 'h' taken out is 'te'.
'croquet'+'te'='CROQUETTE'
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for croquette that I've seen before include "meat cake" , "Fried cake" , "A fried roll of potato" , "Dish fried in breadcrumbs" .)