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Henry leaves top officer taking a fortified wine (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

marsala

'fortified wine' is the definition.
(Marsala is an example)

'henry leaves top officer taking a' is the wordplay.
'henry' becomes 'H' (symbol for the unit of electrical inductance).
'leaves' suggests deleting specific letters.
'top officer' becomes 'marshal' (army officer).
'taking' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'marshal' with 'h' taken away is 'marsal'.
'marsal'+'a'='MARSALA'

(Other definitions for marsala that I've seen before include "Dessert wine from Sicily" , "Sicilian dessert wine" , "Wine - as alarm (anag)" , "Sweet dessert wine" , "Fortified Sicilian wine" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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