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Effect from explosion of wine and whiskey kept in store (5,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

shock wave

'effect from explosion' is the definition.

'wine and whiskey kept in store' is the wordplay.
'wine' becomes 'hock' (hock is a kind of wine).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'whiskey' becomes 'w' (alpha bravo charlie delta ...).
'kept in' is an insertion indicator.
'store' becomes 'save' (I've seen this before).
'hock'+'w'='hockw'
'hockw' going inside 'save' is 'SHOCK WAVE'.

'of' is the link.

(Other definitions for shock wave that I've seen before include "Effect of an explosion" , "It's generated by supersonic movement" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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