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Famous clown having a hot drink (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cocoa

'hot drink' is the definition.
(cocoa is a type of hot drink)

'famous clown having a' is the wordplay.
'famous clown' becomes 'coco' (Coco the Clown, 20th-century clown).
'having' says to put letters next to each other.
'coco'+'a'='COCOA'

(Other definitions for cocoa that I've seen before include "Warming bedtime drink" , "Chocolate powder" , "Kind of chocolate drink" , "brown powder" , "Main constituent of chocolate" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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