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Fresh red Dubonnet bottles husband cracked (5,3,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

round the bend

'cracked' is the definition.
(I know that cracked can be written as round the bend)

'fresh red dubonnet bottles husband' is the wordplay.
'fresh' indicates an anagram.
'bottles' is an insertion indicator (bottle can mean to contain).
'husband' becomes 'h'.
'red'+'dubonnet'='reddubonnet'
'reddubonnet' is an anagram of 'roundtebend'.
'roundtebend' placed around 'h' is 'ROUND THE BEND'.

(Other definitions for round the bend that I've seen before include "Nuts" , "Slightly mad" , "Crackers" , "Further along winding road" , "Mad - crazy" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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