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Cocktail: fancy drinking the blue one shortly (6,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

whisky mac

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'cocktail' is the definition.
(cocktail of whisky and ginger wine)

'fancy drinking the blue one shortly' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'blue' could be 'sky' (sky blue is a shade of blue) and 'sky' is located in the answer.
'fancy' could be 'whim' (both can mean a notion or desire) and 'whim' is located in the remaining letters.
'one' could be 'a' (a thing is one thing) and 'a' is present in the answer.
A single letter 'c' remains which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for whisky mac that I've seen before include "Drink with ginger wine" , "Chaser" , "Mixed drink" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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