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Spirited French not good digesting salmon (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

alcoholic

'spirited' is the definition.

'french not good digesting salmon' is the wordplay.
'french' becomes 'gallic' (I've seen this before).
'not' suggests deleting specific letters.
'good' becomes 'g' (abbreviation).
'digesting' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'salmon' becomes 'coho' (type of salmon).
'gallic' with 'g' taken away is 'allic'.
'allic' going around 'coho' is 'ALCOHOLIC'.

(Other definitions for alcoholic that I've seen before include "Dipso" , "One addicted to drink" , "Over-tippling" , "Drunk" , "Sponge" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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