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Drinking with cryptic setter in capital location (7,6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

downing street

'capital location' is the definition.
(location in London, the UK capital)

'drinking with cryptic setter' is the wordplay.
'drinking' becomes 'downing' (as in downing a drink).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'cryptic' is an anagram indicator (a cryptic or obscure order of the letters).
'setter' with letters rearranged gives 'street'.
'downing'+'street'='DOWNING STREET'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for downing street that I've seen before include "No 10's location" , "important address" , "The (British) government" , "gated community?" , "PM's home" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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