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In the neighbourhood around court for a delicious drink (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nectar

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'delicious drink' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'in the neighbourhood around court for a' is the wordplay.
'in the' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'neighbourhood' becomes 'ren' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'around' says the letters should be written backwards.
'court' becomes 'ct'.
'for' says to put letters next to each other.
'ren' reversed gives 'ner'.
'ct'+'a'='cta'
'ner' placed around 'cta' is 'NECTAR'.

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(Other definitions for nectar that I've seen before include "sweet thing" , "queen's workers to get this" , "Flower secretion" , "Drink of the gods consumed in trance" , "Beverage of the gods" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times and the Irish Times (Crosaire).
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