Ate clumsily and messed up beard with food (3,5)

I believe the answer is:

tea-bread

'food' is the definition.

'ate clumsily and messed up beard' is the wordplay.
'clumsily' indicates an anagram.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'messed up' indicates an anagram.
'ate' is an anagram of 'tea'.
'beard' anagrammed gives 'bread'.
'tea'+'bread'='TEA-BREAD'

'with' is the link.

(Another definition for tea-bread that I've seen is " Type of fruit cake".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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