Spud's volume, for example, with Beatles melody (10)
I believe the answer is:
vegetables
'spud's' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'volume for example with beatles melody' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'volume' could be 'v' and 'v' is present in the answer.
'example' could be 'eg' and 'eg' is present in the answer.
an anagram of 'beatles' is 'etables' which is located in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for vegetables that I've seen is " Edible plants".)