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Dislike a pint drunk at Hackney Arms (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

antipathy

'dislike' is the definition.
(I know that antipathy is a type of dislike)

'a pint drunk at hackney arms' is the wordplay.
'drunk' is an anagram indicator.
'arms' means to remove the middle letters (only the side letters or \'arms\' of the word).
'hackney' with its middle taken out is 'hy'.
'pint' with letters rearranged gives 'ntip'.
'a'+'ntip'+'at'+'hy'='ANTIPATHY'

(Other definitions for antipathy that I've seen before include "Feeling of deep aversion" , "ill will" , "Abhorrence" , "strong dislike" , "Negative feeling" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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