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Drive husband to drink, being contrary (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

push

'drive' is the definition.
(push is a kind of drive)

'husband to drink being contrary' is the wordplay.
'husband' becomes 'h'.
'to drink' becomes 'sup' (I've seen this before**).
'being contrary' says the letters should be written backwards.
'h'+'sup'='hsup'
'hsup' in reverse letter order is 'PUSH'.

(Other definitions for push that I've seen before include "Force one's way (through)" , "Promote - drive" , "Strongly promote" , "Offensive - press" , "What often proverbially comes to "shove"?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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