Solutions:
Across: 5 Extra-virgin, 7 Iced, 8 Emmental, 9 Celeriac, 11 Grog, 12 Scum, 14 Maize oil, 16 Skinfuls, 18
Real, 19 Salad dishes.
Down: 1 Stodge, 2 Sage, 3 Big Mac, 4 Egg-nog, 5 Eccles cakes, 6 Neapolitans, 10 Aga, 13 Mangle, 14
Mouldy, 15 Earthy, 17 Shin.
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ACROSS
5 Olive oil made from the first pressing (5-6)
7 Like a Belgian bun (4)
8 Hard Swiss cheese (variant spelling) (8)
9 Umbelliferous salad vegetable with a turnip-like base (8)
11 Alcoholic drink, rum and water, traditionally meted out to mariners (4)
12 Unwanted matter in the form of froth or film that forms after boiling or fermenting (4)
14 Frying agent (5,3)
16 More than one over the eight, more than once! (8)
18 ---- ale, cask-conditioned beer served without added gas pressure (4)
19 Waldorf and Caesar are examples of these (5,6)
DOWN
1 Heavy and filling (usually starchy) food (6)
2 Stuffing ingredient (4)
3 Popular item on a fast food menu (3,3)
4 Christmas tipple, the main ingredient of which is mixed in an alcoholic punch (3-3)
5 Sweet pastries stuffed with currants, a North of England favourite (6,5)
6 Little wrapped milk or plain chocolates (11)
10 Permanently-lit oven, a shortening of its Swedish name (3)
13 Crush, break: water extractor (6)
14 Affected by fungus (6)
15 Describing an effect of terroir on some wines, like Cote du Rhone, for instance (6)
17 Cheap cut of beef used in stews and casseroles (4)
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