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Tea eagerly ordered, around four, ultimately (4,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

earl grey

'tea' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'eagerly ordered around four ultimately' is the wordplay.
'ordered' indicates an anagram.
'around' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ultimately' suggests the final letters.
The final letter of 'four' is 'r'.
'eagerly' with letters rearranged gives 'ealgrey'.
'ealgrey' enclosing 'r' is 'EARL GREY'.

(Other definitions for earl grey that I've seen before include "Variety of tea flavoured with bergamot" , "leaves a lot to be desired?" , "Tea named after British prime minister" , "Kind of China tea" , "Bergamot-flavour tea" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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