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Decline drinks, say (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lapse

'decline' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'drinks say' is the wordplay.
'drinks' becomes 'laps' (lapping is a kind of drinking).
'say' shows a homophone (sound like).
'laps' is a homophone of 'LAPSE'.

(Other definitions for lapse that I've seen before include "Fault" , "Revert (to bad habits, etc)" , "Slip; sounds like circuits" , "Go back to bad behaviour" , "Pleas (anag)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph and The Guardian.
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