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Cold drink in summery Spain is sweet (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chocolate

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'is sweet' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'cold drink in summery' is the wordplay.
'cold' becomes 'c' (eg on taps).
'drink' becomes 'cola' (cola is a kind of drink).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'summery' becomes 'hote' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'cola' going inside 'hote' is 'hocolate'.
'c'+'hocolate'='CHOCOLATE'

'spain' acts as a link.
This may not be right. It may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for chocolate that I've seen before include "The tasty treat could turn out to be a cool cheat" , "The tasty treat turns out to be a cool cheat" , "Cacao product" , "Coca hotel is a treat" , "Sweet made with cacao beans" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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