Related Clues:

• There may be dead meat in them and on them, and that's flat
• Not in time in the postscript, and that's flat
• 'Begin to make fun of the cups and saucers (3,3)'
• Set on Alp up where they're all flat
• 4:00 p.m. service, maybe
• Sugar bowl location
• Use this perhaps in the afternoon to ease into not drinking?
• Cups, saucers, etc
• Service at an afternoon party
• Armadillo's protection
• Preparation of staple dishes
• Worry over tons of tableware
• China hard to be isolated from the East, perhaps
• Service in the afternoon to tantalise leader of troop
• Ridicule the regional tableware