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Extreme way drink's bottled in rural location (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

farmstead

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'rural location' is the definition.
(location in the country)

'extreme way drink's bottled in' is the wordplay.
'extreme' becomes 'far' (I've seen this in other clues).
'way' becomes 'st' (short for street).
'drink's bottled' becomes 'mead' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'st' going into 'mead' is 'mstead'.
'far'+'mstead'='FARMSTEAD'

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(Other definitions for farmstead that I've seen before include "Rural establishment" , "country property" , "agricultural setting" , "It could have stock" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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