The vessel a drunken sot takes up (5)
I believe the answer is:
stoup
'the vessel' is the definition.
(stoup is a kind of vessel)
'a drunken sot takes up' is the wordplay.
'a drunken' indicates an anagram.
'takes' says to put letters next to each other.
'sot' is an anagram of 'sto'.
'sto'+'up'='STOUP'
(Another definition for stoup that I've seen is " Basin for holy water".)
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