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Dry wine for use by pilots (7)

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I believe the answer is:

airport

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'use by pilots' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how one could define the other.

'dry wine' is the wordplay.
'dry' becomes 'air' (airing is a kind of drying).
'wine' becomes 'port wine' (port is a kind of wine).
'air'+'port'='AIRPORT'

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for airport that I've seen before include "Travel terminus" , "you may expect to fly here" , "Place for planes" , "... [GAULLISM] its founder perhaps" , "passenger terminal" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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