Describing crumbly, well-sugared pastry (5,3,5)
I believe the answer is:
short and sweet
'describing' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'crumbly well-sugared pastry' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'crumbly' could be 'short' (synonyms) and 'short' is located in the answer.
'sugared' could be 'sweet' (synonyms) and 'sweet' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'and' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for short and sweet that I've seen before include "Quick to polish off" , "Quick but relevant" , "briefly pleasant" , "pleasantly brief" , "Quickly and to the point" .)