Envious of ale drunk in short tournament (7)

I believe the answer is:

jealous

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'envious' is the definition.
(I know that envious can be written as jealous)

'ale drunk in short tournament' is the wordplay.
'drunk' indicates an anagram.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'short tournament' becomes 'jous' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'ale' anagrammed gives 'eal'.
'eal' placed into 'jous' is 'JEALOUS'.

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for jealous that I've seen before include "Showing envy" , "Resentful" , "Green-eyed" , "Green" , "Envious of another" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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