The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word GENII
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result GENII
- Spirits: senior officer takes two
- Information on two bottled spirits
- Drunken topless binge in which one’s drunk spirits
- Spirits: finishes off Bacardi and coke
- Clever people making gin that is fantastic
- Spirits and dope used by team
- Man’s unfulfilled with two guiding spirits
- Spirits originally included in, say, flips
- Fifty per cent of privates on island make spirits
- Big brains collect information one by one
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The straight part
We know that "bottled spirits" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case bottled spirits = genii.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does GENII mean?
GENII noun- Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.
- Extraordinary mental capacity.
- Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
- The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.
- A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.
- A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container.