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Relations picked up tea and other drinks (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tales

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'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'

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(Other definitions for tales that I've seen before include "They might be tall" , "reports" , "accounts" , "Stories, perhaps tall ones" , "Stories, yarns" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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