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Elizabethan old-timer bottles alcohol (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ethanol

'alcohol' is the definition.
(ethanol is a kind of alcohol)

'elizabethan old-timer bottles' is the wordplay.
'bottles' says the answer is hidden in the clue (bottling is a kind of containing).
'ETHANOL' is hidden in the letters of 'elizabethan old timer'.

(Other definitions for ethanol that I've seen before include "Alcohol in wine, beer" , "Kind of alcohol - not hale (anag)" , "constituent for a dram?" , "Ethyl alcohol" , "Form of alcohol" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sunday Times.
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