### Clue: Space given to plants in dishes (7)
### Answer: ENTREES 
 ### Explanation: Definition: dishes
 EN(a unit measurement of space used in typesetting) **plus**(given to) TREES(plants – large ones).
Defn: … at the start of a meal in modern French cuisine and in most English-speaking parts of the world, except in the US and parts of Canada where they are the main courses of meals.