Looks for the exotic canape with the fruit filling (10)
I believe the answer is:
appearance
'looks' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'the exotic canape with the fruit filling' is the wordplay.
'the exotic' indicates anagramming the letters (an unusual form of the letters).
'with' is an insertion indicator.
'the fruit filling' becomes 'pear' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'canape' is an anagram of 'apance'.
'apance' placed around 'pear' is 'APPEARANCE'.
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for appearance that I've seen before include "Look; impression given" , "Bearing - pretence" , "Semblance" , "air" , "Act of being present - look" .)