Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: rec.puzzles.crosswords
Subject: Help explain this clue: "Choose a filling for pastries"
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 22:02:46 -0500
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 20
Message-ID: <utqpgm$rh80$1@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 04:02:47 +0100
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d7a427a14a584682cbff0eae72ee5a59";
	logging-data="902400"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+TaVKR4KIVhzUhkQOqPuNGYgqLRxuj87k="
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:mK4Vzoc8hD6luQRceOQdHP9Apbg=
Content-Language: en-US
Bytes: 1497

This is from Games World of Puzzles, February 2024. The puzzle is 
"Beginnings and Endings" by Patrick Berry.

The clue is:
Choose a filling for pastries (Hyph.)

and the answer is:
POP-TARTS

The explanation given is:
(opt + parts)

I see how OPT means "choose", and POP-TARTS are "pastries", but I don't 
see how "a filling for" can give both PARTS and an anagram or container 
indicator. "Filling" could be a container indicator, of course, but that 
would mean that "for" would have to be used to define PARTS.

--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com