American spirits found in bottles around conservative offices (8)
I believe the answer is:
agencies
'offices' is the definition.
('agency' can be a synonym of 'office')
'american spirits found in bottles around conservative' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'american' could be 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names) and 'a' is present in the answer.
'around' could be 'c' (abbreviation for 'circa') and 'c' is present in the answer.
'spirits' could be 'genies' (genie is a kind of spirit) and 'genies' is present in the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for agencies that I've seen before include "Organisations providing particular services" , "Businesses that provide services on behalf of another businesses" , "Service organisations" , "Businesses that serve others" , "They organise transactions, between advertisers and media perhaps" .)