The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word MEDOC
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More clues leading to the result MEDOC
- Doctor caught pinching journalist’s wine
- Red Sea round cape
- Maître d’, one giving men orders for wine
- This will be imbibed in some do copiously
- If __ __, you patient? That’ll make you red
- The writer and physician getting together for wine
- Wine and fish Eastern maiden served up
- Red dwarf’s introduction to Tarzan?
- Regularly sample red exotic wine
- This person needs medical practitioner — something drunk
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The straight part
We know that "wine" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case wine = medoc.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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