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Barely manage transporting beer's contents to UK (3,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

eke out

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'barely manage' is the definition.
'eke out' can be an answer for 'manage' (thesaurus). I'm not sure about the 'barely' bit.

'transporting beer's contents to uk' is the wordplay.
'transporting' indicates an anagram (I've seen 'transported' mean this).
'contents' means to look at the middle letters (I've seen 'content' mean this).
The middle letters of 'beer' are 'ee'.
'ee'+'to'+'uk'='eetouk'
'eetouk' with letters rearranged gives 'EKE OUT'.

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(Other definitions for eke out that I've seen before include "Make a meagre living" , "Make living laboriously" , "Just about manage to make a living" , "Make stretch" , "Make last, use sparingly" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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