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Acquire unlimited wine with scoundrel (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

incur

'acquire' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'unlimited wine with scoundrel' is the wordplay.
'unlimited' says to take the centre (discard the edges or 'limits' of the word).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'scoundrel' becomes 'cur' (I've seen this before).
The middle of 'wine' is 'in'.
'in'+'cur'='INCUR'

(Other definitions for incur that I've seen before include "Become subject to (something unwelcome)" , "Meet" , "Runic (anag.)" , "Become subject to (penalty)" , "Fall into - invite" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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