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Drink is a mixture of liquor, bubbly, lager, and the last of the juice (6,3)

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I believe the answer is:

ginger ale

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'drink' is the definition.
(I know that ginger ale is a type of soft drink)

'liquor bubbly lager and the last of the juice' is the wordplay.
'liquor' becomes 'gin' (gin is a kind of liquor).
'bubbly' is an anagram indicator (I've seen this in other clues).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'the last of' suggests the final letters.
The last letter of 'juice' is 'e'.
'lager' is an anagram of 'geral'.
'gin'+'geral'+'e'='GINGER ALE'

'is a mixture of' acts as a link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for ginger ale that I've seen before include "One drink" , "pop" , "Fizzy drink" , "Spicy, sweetened non-alcoholic drink" , "It won't make you drunk!" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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