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Presently being full of whisky, black out (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

swoon

'black out' is the definition.
(swooning is a kind of blacking out)

'presently being full of whisky' is the wordplay.
'presently' becomes 'soon' ('soon' can be a synonym of 'presently').
'being full of' is an insertion indicator.
'whisky' becomes 'w' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'soon' going around 'w' is 'SWOON'.

(Other definitions for swoon that I've seen before include "Show ecstasy" , "Pass out" , "Faint (with emotion)" , "Lose consciousness" , "experience ecstasy" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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