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Perhaps Tom and I meet - wine drinking is arranged (11)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

categorised

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'arranged' is the definition.
('arranged'->'categorized' is in my internal thesaurus and 'ize'->'ise')

'perhaps tom and i meet wine drinking is' is the wordplay.
'perhaps tom' becomes 'cat' (a tom is a male cat).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'i' becomes 'ego' ('I' in Latin).
'meet wine' becomes 'red' (red is a type of wine. I am not sure about the 'meet' bit.).
'drinking' is an insertion indicator (inserted letters are consumed or drunk).
'red' going around 'is' is 'rised'.
'cat'+'ego'+'rised'='CATEGORISED'

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