The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SUPPORT
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result SUPPORT
- Two types of drink one used to give strength?
- Drink after drink for champion
- Two drinks to bring you comfort?
- Drink wine in comfort
- . What one might do after dinner is give a donation
- Loyalty for Proust admitting penny dreadful
- Drink alcohol for comfort
- Second truss?
- Help kind guards up onto roof of penitentiary
- Carry drink left on board
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The straight part
We know that "comfort" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case comfort = support.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SUPPORT mean?
SUPPORT noun- (sometimes attributive) Something which supports.
- Financial or other help.
- Answers to questions and resolution of problems regarding something sold.
- In relation to a function, the set of points where the function is not zero, or the closure of that set.
- (fuzzy set theory) A set whose elements are at least partially included in a given fuzzy set (i.e., whose grade of membership in that fuzzy set is strictly greater than zero).
- Evidence.
- Compatibility and functionality for a given product or feature.
- An actor playing a subordinate part with a star.
- An accompaniment in music.
- (structural analysis) Horizontal, vertical or rotational support of structures: movable, hinged, fixed.
- To keep from falling.
- To answer questions and resolve problems regarding something sold.
- To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid.
- To help, particularly financially.
- To verify; to make good; to substantiate; to establish; to sustain.
- To serve, as in a customer-oriented mindset; to give support to.
- To be designed (said of machinery, electronics, or computers, or their parts, accessories, peripherals, or programming) to function compatibly with or provide the capacity for.
- To be accountable for, or involved with, but not responsible for.
- To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; to tolerate.
- To assume and carry successfully, as the part of an actor; to represent or act; to sustain.
- A position in which a gymnast is holding their body above the rings (or high bar, parallel bars...) usually with straight arms.