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Overflowing with Cape wine almost entirely (5-4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chock-full

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'overflowing' is the definition.
(very full up)

'with cape wine almost entirely' is the wordplay.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'cape wine' becomes 'chock' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'almost' means to remove the last letter (almost the whole word is kept).
'entirely' becomes 'fully' (I've seen this before).
'fully' with its final letter taken away is 'full'.
'chock' next to 'full' is 'CHOCK-FULL'.

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(Other definitions for chock-full that I've seen before include "Crammed tight" , "Crammed, stuffed to the top" , "Totally crammed, contents wedged together" , "Packed to absolute capacity" , "Crammed, packed in tightly" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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