Dense food dry with a beer drunk (3,5)
I believe the answer is:
rye bread
'dense food' is the definition.
'rye bread' can be an answer for 'food' (rye bread is a kind of food). I am not certain of the 'dense' bit.
'dry with a beer drunk' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'a' is within the answer.
an anagram of 'beer' is 'ebre' which is within the answer.
an anagram of 'dry' is 'ryd' which is within the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for rye bread that I've seen before include "What Germans call Roggenbrot" , "Pumpernickel" , "Dark bakery product" , "Dark baker's product" , "Dense type of loaf" .)