Possible Clues:

• Challah, e.g.
• It's no good round about this to use your loaf
• Soldiers dividing rotten food
• Use your loaf and be literate at last
• Use your loaf if you want to get about this in what 27 across is
• What would a baker be doing using 10 across at last?
• Could be a toast for the sound of what you've been breeding
• Type of winner?
• Gracefully thin
• Sounds as if it's raised with a beard