Kill time with ale drunk around pub, endlessly (9)
I believe the answer is:
eliminate
'kill' is the definition.
(eliminating is a kind of killing)
'time with ale drunk around pub endlessly' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'time' could be 'min' (short for minute) and 'min' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
(Other definitions for eliminate that I've seen before include "put out" , "Do away with, get rid of" , "Annihilate" , "Knock out" , "Discard - exclude" .)