Swiss produce soldiers to probe meat supply line (8)
I believe the answer is:
emmental
'swiss produce' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both things that one consumes for nourishment as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'soldiers to probe meat supply line' is the wordplay.
'soldiers' becomes 'men' (men can mean a group of soldiers).
'to probe' is an insertion indicator (probe can mean to poke or prod into).
'supply' is an anagram indicator (in a supple way).
'line' becomes 'l' (used when specifying particular lines from a poem).
'meat' anagrammed gives 'emta'.
'men' placed into 'emta' is 'emmenta'.
'emmenta'+'l'='EMMENTAL'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for emmental that I've seen before include "Swiss cheese with large holes" , "Gruyere-like cheese" , "Holy swiss cheese" , "Hard Swiss cheese" , "Something served on board" .)