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Strangely hot drink losing temperature left inside (5)

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I believe the answer is:

oddly

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'strangely' is the definition.
(I know that strangely can be written as oddly)

'hot drink losing temperature left inside' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'left' could be 'odd' (synonyms) and 'odd' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for oddly that I've seen before include "Unusually" , "In a strange way" , "This clue [32A] is not numbered so" , "strange to say?" , "In a peculiar way" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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