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Reveal how to clumsily pod legumes? (5,3,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

spill the beans

'reveal' is the definition.
(to spill the beans is to reveal a secret)

'to clumsily pod legumes?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'legumes?' could be 'beans' (bean is a kind of legume) and 'beans' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

'how' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for spill the beans that I've seen before include "Give the game away" , "Embarrassingly reveal a secret" , "Tell us!" , "Grass" , "Disclose, confess" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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