Possible Clues:

• Chew
• Get your teeth into what stands up in the ship to start with
• Act as time runs out for champ
• What 13 across consumed, one can chew
• Crush the fellow framing a virtuous man in charge
• Cat's meat I mince and chew
• Chew something gummy, then brew tea
• So as to get her teeth into it, Mother ate just about most of the stick
• Torpor
• Process food in wine cape in China