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Tips from source upset dirty Fed (9)

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I believe the answer is:

sustained

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'fed' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to consumption as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'tips from source upset dirty' is the wordplay.
'tips from' says to take the initial letters (letters on tips of the word).
'dirty' becomes 'stained' (made dirty by a stain).
The first letters of 'source upset' is 'su'.
'su'+'stained'='SUSTAINED'

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(Other definitions for sustained that I've seen before include "bore" , "Kept going, supported" , "held up" , "Steadily maintained" , "Steady" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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