One unable to fly into a passion turns to the bottle (7)
I believe the answer is:
remuage
'turns to the bottle' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'one unable to fly into a passion' is the wordplay.
'one unable to fly' becomes 'emu' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'into' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a passion' becomes 'rage' (synonyms).
'emu' going within 'rage' is 'REMUAGE'.
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