Possible Clues:

• I'm hesitant to turn up tense for meal
• What's cooking? It's about done
• (Formal) meal
• Meal about finished
• What's for lunch
• Spread similar to one of those in 27 across
• 14 cooked timeless meal
• Dinner's gone by again?
• About father's tea ... I hear it's a full meal!
• Meal of mushy peas in empty restaurant