Beer with strange name in area of Rio (7)
I believe the answer is:
ipanema
'area of rio' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'beer with strange name' is the wordplay.
'beer' becomes 'IPA' (India pale ale).
'with' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'strange' is an anagram indicator.
'name' with letters rearranged gives 'anem'.
'ipa' placed around 'anem' is 'IPANEMA'.
'in' is the link.
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