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Looked to consume whisky and brandy, finally out of touch with reality (6-4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

starry-eyed

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'out of touch with reality' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'looked to consume whisky and brandy finally' is the wordplay.
'looked' becomes 'eyed' (eyeing is a kind of looking).
'to' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (I've seen this in other clues).
'consume whisky' becomes 'starr' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'finally' suggests the final letters.
The final letter of 'brandy' is 'y'.
'starr'+'y'='starry'
'eyed' after 'starry' is 'STARRY-EYED'.

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(Other definitions for starry-eyed that I've seen before include "Naively enthusiastic" , "Romantically optimistic" , "Naively idealistic" , "Out of touch with reality" , "Full of unsophisticated optimism" .)

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