Relations picked up tea and other drinks (5)
I believe the answer is:
tales
'relations' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'picked up tea and other drinks' is the wordplay.
'picked up' shows a homophone (sound like).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'other drinks' becomes 'ales' (ale is a kind of drink. I am not sure about the 'other' bit.).
'tea' sounds like 't'.
't'+'ales'='TALES'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tales that I've seen before include "They might be tall" , "reports" , "accounts" , "Stories, perhaps tall ones" , "Stories, yarns" .)