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A lot of wine with curry — by chance, neither finished (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

balthazar

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'a lot of wine' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'with curry by chance neither finished' is the wordplay.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'curry by' becomes 'balt' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'chance' becomes 'hazard' (synonyms).
'neither finished' means to remove the last letter (both words\' final letters are removed).
'hazard' with its final letter taken away is 'hazar'.
'balt'+'hazar' is 'BALTHAZAR'.

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(Other definitions for balthazar that I've seen before include "Enormous bottle" , "large bottle" , "Gifted king" , "A lot of bottle" .)

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