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Lingers over tucking into quantities of American wine (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

loiters

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'lingers' is the definition.
('loiter' can be a synonym of 'linger')

'tucking into quantities of american wine' is the wordplay.
'tucking into' indicates putting letters inside.
'quantities' becomes 'ls' (l is a kind of quantity).
'of' becomes 'o''.
'american wine' becomes 'iter' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'o'+'iter'='oiter'
'ls' placed around 'oiter' is 'LOITERS'.

'over' is the link.

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(Other definitions for loiters that I've seen before include "Hangs about with toilers" , "Waits idly" , "Hangs about idly" , "dawdles" , "Hangs around" .)

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