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Having a bit of trouble with the wordplay on these.
Any help appreciated thanks.

19D) Component of clothing worn by baker who's a card (7) S - B - N - -.
I'm going with SUBUNIT, being a component, but getting mixed up with clothing and card = suit, and can only see bun connection to baker which is tenuous.

27A) What's Tory's lad flying, with a queen visiting? (5,8) R - Y - L. - - - N - A - D
Again, I have an answer, ROYAL STANDARD, but the question mark is throwing me here because it looks like an anagram, but isn't.

The last letter of 19 Down corresponds with the second letter of the second word in 27 Across (Which seems to work well for both being 'T')

I think I may be missing something really simple here. Any explanations would be great.

Les40

I had both of those - not great clues, but passable! I thought of Mr Bun (the baker, Happy Families), with 'bun' inside 'suit'/clothing, giving subunit/component.

Mr Bun in the card game Happy Families is a baker?

Re the other one - Royal Standard is an anagram of 'tory lads'+'and'+ a r(a Queen).

Oh wow, Thanks malone and AB, I love playing cards but have truly never heard of the game Happy Families. It just shows, if you don't know... you just don't know!
Any pointers with the Royal Standard?

is there the word and in the clue? - as there is tory lads in the anagram with ar for a queen.

Cheers malone,
So the word 'with' is substituted for 'and' which then and only then makes it an anagram. I'm not happy with that... and I bet Mr Bun would be livid!

Les, sorry if my 'royal standard' explanation was rubbish!

ROYAL STANDARD is an anagram of Tory's lad (ROYAL ST?????D). The bit in the middle is "with a queen" which is AND A R

No, that's ok malone.
It makes more sense now that Brackendale has explained it with the visual aid of the clue wrote out like above.
I am now not unhappy with it. Mr Bun is ok too