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Passed the drink around, one fine day! (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

given

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'passed' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to change as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'drink around one fine day' is the wordplay.
'drink' becomes 'gin' (gin is an alcoholic drink).
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'one fine day' becomes 've' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'gin' going around 've' is 'GIVEN'.

'the' is the link.

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(Other definitions for given that I've seen before include "Handed over; an 18 dn" , "Bestowed" , "Accepted as true" , "Lent?" , "Known fact" .)

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