Completed the puzzle, which I thought was a good one. Would like to understand the parsing on a couple of solutions if anyone can help.
5 Down: Sliced food, shortcake could I be? (8) I believe is PASTRAMI but cannot see why.
6 Across … for which bar charges suspect (8) is GUINNESS, which is a stout following from the solution to 25 but I don't get the rest of the clue.