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French head drinking English wine looked wobbly (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

teetered

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'looked wobbly' is the definition.
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'french head drinking english wine' is the wordplay.
'french head' becomes 'tete' ('head' in French).
'drinking' means one lot of letters goes inside another (inserted letters are consumed or drunk).
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation).
'wine' becomes 'red wine' (red is a type of wine).
'tete' enclosing 'e' is 'teete'.
'teete'+'red'='TEETERED'

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(Other definitions for teetered that I've seen before include "Wobbled on the brink" , "wavered" , "Tottered, on the brink say" , "seemed likely to fall" , "Moved unsteadily" .)

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