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Last one. 9a Spooners wet bread firm and sticky dish. 4,4. I have chop suey, but can’t parse it for the life of me!!

It's a spoonerism (After Reverend Spooner) of SOP (Wet bread) + CHUEY (Chewy - Firm and sticky)

This explains it much better than i did:-

spoonerism
n
(Linguistics) the transposition of the initial consonants or consonant clusters of a pair of words, often resulting in an amusing ambiguity of meaning, such as hush my brat for brush my hat
[C20: named after W. A. Spooner (1844–1930), English clergyman renowned for slips of this kind]

Thanks both, it was the sop bit that fooled me!