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Island where Brown consumes excellent whiskey (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

taiwan

'island' is the definition.
(Taiwan is an example)

'brown consumes excellent whiskey' is the wordplay.
'brown' becomes 'tan' (tan is a kind of brown).
'consumes' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'excellent' becomes 'ai' (resembles 'A1', old-fashioned term for excellent).
'whiskey' becomes 'W' (alpha bravo charlie delta ...).
'ai'+'w'='aiw'
'tan' enclosing 'aiw' is 'TAIWAN'.

'where' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for taiwan that I've seen before include "Island in East" , "Former Formosa" , "Island off mainland China" , "foreign island" , "Disputed island off china, used to be Formosa" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent and The Telegraph.
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