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[suba]

21d, a dish containing a mixture of ingredients, cooked in a pastry shell or in a mould (7) T ?M ? ? ? E.
27a, a type of oil or preparation for the hair used by men in the Victorian and Edwardian eras (8) ? ? ? A ?s ? R.

[Baboonboy]

21d Timbale
27a Macassar (never heard of it either!)

[celticminded]

timbale
macassar

[celticminded]

ps - macassar is a still known in the context of the "anti-macassar", which is the sort of lace-type thingy which older people would have on the backs of chairs, settees and that sort of thing. They were originally used to prevent the oily macassar from staining the furniture.

[suba]

Thank you both for your help, must agree I have never heard of it.
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[suba]

Learn something every day !

[suba]

I think I should have been a charater in that Roald Dahl book. The way it's gone this morning.
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[Baboonboy]

Thanks celticminded! Its a new one to me. BB

[Dee Sa]

my gran used to still call chair backs antimacassars but I believe they were always dark colours eg dark green with fancy tassles . ugh.