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Drink accompanying food with nothing in it (3,3,4)

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I believe the answer is:

nip and tuck

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'drink accompanying' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'food with nothing in it' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'food' could be 'tuck' (I've seen this before) and 'tuck' is found in the answer.
'with' could be 'and' and 'and' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'nip' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for nip and tuck that I've seen before include "Very close" , "Level in a race, competition or comparison" , "Operations to decrease" , "Hard to separate" , "operation" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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