Such creatures take food smothered in fruit (5,4)
I believe the answer is:
great apes
'such creatures take food smothered in fruit' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'such creatures take food' is the wordplay.
'such creatures' becomes 'grapes' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'take' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'food' becomes 'eat' (I've seen this in other clues).
'grapes' placed around 'eat' is 'GREAT APES'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for great apes that I've seen before include "Forest-dwellers" , "Our cousins" , "Primates" .)