Where a browser might get cookies? NYT crossword clue

This clue uses wordplay to create a clever double meaning. The word “browser” can refer to someone casually looking around—like a person browsing in a store—not just someone using a web browser. The clue plays on the idea of a place where someone who is browsing (in the literal, shopping sense) might come across cookies of the edible kind.

The correct answer to the clue “Where a browser might get cookies?” is BAKERY. In this case, it refers to an actual place where cookies are baked and sold. A browser in a bakery might very well end up getting cookies, making this clue a fun pun based on two meanings of “browser.”