### Clue: Carroll's first mad party host goes to buffet with gasbag (10)
### Answer: CHATTERBOX 
 ### Explanation: Definition: gasbag
  C(initial letter,first of "Carroll") HATTER(reference to the Mad Hatter, party host in "Alice in Wonderland") **plus**(goes to) BOX(verb, to hit,buffet).  Another nice surface as Lewis Carroll was the creator of the Mad Hatter, and with "buffet table" being what you might get at a party, such as the forthcoming K'sDad's Sloggers and Betters Derby Day.