Take an alcoholic drink round to him (7)

I believe the answer is:

anatole

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'him' is the definition.

'take an alcoholic drink round to' is the wordplay.
'take' becomes 'an' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'an alcoholic drink' becomes 'ale' (I've seen this before).
'round' indicates putting letters inside.
'ale' enclosing 'to' is 'atole'.
'an'+'atole'='ANATOLE'

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(Other definitions for anatole that I've seen before include "- - France, French novelist" , "- France, Fr. writer" , "France perhaps" , "France possibly" , "France maybe" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

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