Fine seafood, bream unfortunately swiped by grimalkin (8)
I believe the answer is:
crabmeat
'fine seafood' is the definition.
'bream unfortunately swiped by grimalkin' is the wordplay.
'unfortunately' indicates anagramming the letters.
'swiped by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'grimalkin' becomes 'cat' (archaic term for cat).
'bream' is an anagram of 'rabme'.
'rabme' going within 'cat' is 'CRABMEAT'.
(Another definition for crabmeat that I've seen is " Food".)
I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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