Possible Clues:

• 'Sounds as if, jokingly, the editor swallowed this (8)'
• Consumed, ate
• Ate
• Took food into the body
• Where the tees are chopped up and swallowed up
• Taken in as food
• Took in (food)
• Through hearing joke boy's taken in
• Gets to dine out? Took in food!
• Jokingly reported journalist and ate