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Have a meal with fruit brought round for primate (5,3)

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I believe the answer is:

great ape

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'primate' is the definition.
(great ape is a kind of primate)

'have a meal with fruit brought round' is the wordplay.
'have a meal with' becomes 'eat' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'fruit' becomes 'grape' (grape is a kind of fruit).
'brought round' is an insertion indicator.
'eat' going within 'grape' is 'GREAT APE'.

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for great ape that I've seen before include "gorilla, say" , "Large primate" , "Eg, gorilla, chimpanzee" , "Chimp perhaps" , "chimpanzee, for example" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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