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There’s no way booze is a cure! (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

nostrum

'a cure' is the definition.
(nostrum is a kind of cure)

'there's no way booze' is the wordplay.
'there's' says to put letters next to each other.
'way' becomes 'st'.
'booze' becomes 'rum' (rum is a kind of booze).
'no' put next to 'st' is 'nost'.
'nost'+'rum'='NOSTRUM'

'is' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for nostrum that I've seen before include "Phoney panacea" , "Patent medicine of highly questionable value" , "Quack cure" , "our Latin" , "secret potion" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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