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Fool drinking seventh and eighth of Guinesses, barred (6)

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I believe the answer is:

closed

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'barred' is the definition.

'fool drinking seventh and eighth of guinesses' is the wordplay.
'fool' becomes 'clod' (I've seen this before).
'drinking' is an insertion indicator.
'seventh' becomes 's' (this might be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'and' says to put letters next to each other.
'eighth of guinesses' becomes 'e' (8th letter of 'guinesses').
's'+'e'='se'
'clod' placed around 'se' is 'CLOSED'.

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(Other definitions for closed that I've seen before include "Exclusive" , "Terminated" , "clinched the sale" , "Resolved" , "Not longer open" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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