Related Clues:

• Chat leisurely; the few chat (anagram)
• Spiteful woman about to cut article by female gossip
• Misshapen hat we fetch producing gossip
• Keep arguing -- like Mrs Sprat does
• Indulge in idle conversation
• Talk -- as might Jack Sprat's wife?
• Shoot the breeze?
• Chat leisurely
• Discuss what to do with crackling, perhaps, with chef that we organised
• Gossip is something Jack Sprat refused to do
• Mrs Sprat does talk