The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word DRY
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result DRY
- Tory hard-liner is dirty, having lost it after split
- Uninspiring legend or story ends
- In need of a drink, GP maybe ending in distillery
- Like deserts, several lacking sun
- Ironic study dismissed by poet and dramatist
- Fish deprived of oxygen out of water
- Changed colour drinking whiskey, but not crying
- Your daughter's taken round flat
- Air could be dirty without it
- Milk producer lacks excellent type of 1D
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The straight part
We know that "In need of a drink" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case in need of a drink = dry.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does DRY mean?
DRY noun- The process by which something is dried.
- A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
- (with "the") The dry season.
- An area of waterless country.
- (UK politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
- To lose moisture.
- To remove moisture from.
- To be thirsty.
- To exhaust; to cause to run dry.
- For an actor to forget his or her lines while performing.
- Free from or lacking moisture.
- Unable to produce a liquid, as water, oil, or (farming) milk.
- Built without or lacking mortar.
- Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
- Athirst, eager.
- Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
- Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
- Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
- (somewhat derogatory) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
- (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects.
- Without a usual complement or consummation; impotent.
- Of a mass, service, or rite: involving neither consecration nor communion.