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Plans to bring up pastries, breaking siege (10)

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I believe the answer is:

strategies

'plans' is the definition.
(strategy is a kind of plan)

'up pastries breaking siege' is the wordplay.
'up' is a reversal indicator (in down clue: letters go upwards).
'pastries' becomes 'tarts' (tart is a kind of pastry).
'breaking' indicates anagramming the letters.
'tarts' reversed gives 'strat'.
'siege' is an anagram of 'egies'.
'strat'+'egies'='STRATEGIES'

'to bring' is the link.

(Another definition for strategies that I've seen is " What planners need".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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