Enliven home with whisky, say (8)

I believe the answer is:

inspirit

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'enliven' is the definition.
(I know that inspirit is a more specific form of the action enliven)

'home with whisky say' is the wordplay.
'home' becomes 'in' ('he's home' can mean 'he's in').
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'whisky say' becomes 'spirit' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in'+'spirit'='INSPIRIT'

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(Another definition for inspirit that I've seen is " Encourage, enliven".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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