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Help explain this clue: "Choose a filling for pastries"

From Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups rec.puzzles.crosswords
Subject Help explain this clue: "Choose a filling for pastries"
Date 2024-03-24 22:02 -0500
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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

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Help explain this clue: "Choose a filling for pastries" Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com> - 2024-03-24 22:02 -0500
  Re: Help explain this clue: "Choose a filling for pastries" HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> - 2024-03-26 03:20 -0700
    Re: Help explain this clue: "Choose a filling for pastries" "HenHanna" <HenHanna@Posting.from.CsiPh> - 2026-06-01 19:48 +0000

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