### Clue: Male in Spanish city starts to prefer exquisite entrées, loving covering of fruit (5,4)
### Answer: LEMON PEEL 
 ### Explanation: Definition: covering of fruit
 M(abbrev. for "male") **contained in**(in) LEÓN(city in northwest Spain) + **1st letters, respectively, of**(starts to) "prefer exquisite entrées, loving".