Possible Clues:

• &&&&&& for food
• &&&&&&, as a matter of course
• Provisions for six plus seven initially
• & by the half-dozen - alll part of 1 across
• Articles of food found under divans
• Exotic vindaloos, not convenience food
• Food and foreign wine, entertaining a CID man?
• Six times & what one eight by sound
• Perhaps &&&&&&, as a matter of course
• Food items (archaic)