The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word IMBIBER
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More clues leading to the result IMBIBER
- One drinking beer half-heartedly with doctors in islands
- One takes in Canadian singer’s claim to be short of energy
- Male, 26, left out being introduced to Irish chap at the bar
- One takes in how US pop idol introduces himself? First European’s ignored
- One medic initially invites British queen for supper
- I’m starting to buy Indian beer on every first and second Friday…to get drunk?
- Setter’s just in, say, giving up drug to get drunk?
- I am sort of fish — little hesitation to be a drinker
- I’m having the local tipple outside Berlin’s foremost boozer
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