Recommended article leaving drink to editor (9)

I believe the answer is:

advocated

'recommended' is the definition.
('advocate' can be a synonym of 'recommend')

'article leaving drink to editor' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'article' could be 'a' (the indefinite article in English) and 'a' is found within the answer.
'editor' could be 'ed' and 'ed' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

(Another definition for advocated that I've seen is " Recommended".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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