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Watches the child consuming the pies

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spies on

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'watches' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'child consuming the pies' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'child' could be 'son' (son is a kind of child) and 'son' is found within the answer.
an anagram of 'pies' is 'spie' which is present in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'the' is the link.

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