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Bog standard wine about to overcome character opening inn (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

mediocre

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'bog standard' is the definition.
'mediocre' can be an answer for 'standard' (thesaurus). I am not certain of the 'bog' bit.

'wine about to overcome character opening inn' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'wine' could be 'm' (I have seen 'French wine ' mean 'm' so perhaps 'wine' could also mean 'm') and 'm' is found within the answer.
'about' could be 're' (regarding) and 're' is present in the answer.
'character' could be 'o' and 'o' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for mediocre that I've seen before include "Of middling quality" , "poor to middling" , "Rather poor" , "Rather inferior" , "Moderate to inferior in quality" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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