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Improving, having drunk gin in truck (7,2)

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I believe the answer is:

picking up

'improving' is the definition.
(picking up is a kind of improving)

'drunk gin in truck' is the wordplay.
'drunk' indicates an anagram.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'truck' becomes 'pickup' (pickup is a kind of truck**).
'gin' anagrammed gives 'ing'.
'ing' inserted inside 'pickup' is 'PICKING UP'.

'having' acts as a link.

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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