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Drunk on lager, imbibing one in local (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

regional

'local' is the definition.
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'drunk on lager imbibing one' is the wordplay.
'drunk' indicates anagramming the letters.
'imbibing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'one' becomes 'i' (Roman numeral).
'on'+'lager'='onlager'
'onlager' with letters rearranged gives 'regonal'.
'regonal' placed around 'i' is 'REGIONAL'.

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for regional that I've seen before include "Relating to a specific area of the country" , "Relating to one area" , "From a geographical area" , "outside the capital" , "of the district" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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