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Drunk fairly good after swallowing quantity of drink? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tiddly

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'drunk' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'swallowing quantity of drink?' is the wordplay.
'swallowing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'quantity' becomes 'dl' (dl is a kind of quantity).
'of drink?' becomes 'tidy' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'dl' placed into 'tidy' is 'TIDDLY'.

'fairly good after' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for tiddly that I've seen before include "A little drunk" , "Merry" , "Woozy" , "Drunk (as winks?)" , "Tiny" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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