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Poison drink? That's the limit! (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

margin

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'the limit' is the definition.
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'poison drink?' is the wordplay.
'poison' becomes 'mar' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'drink?' becomes 'gin' (gin is a kind of drink).
'mar'+'gin'='MARGIN'

'that's' is the link.

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(Other definitions for margin that I've seen before include "Blank space around a text" , "Bland space around text" , "Edge or space for error" , "Blank space that surrounds the text on a page" , "bank" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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