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Recline to consume honeyed drink and quencher (7)

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I believe the answer is:

limeade

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'quencher' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'recline to consume honeyed drink' is the wordplay.
'recline' becomes 'lie' (I've seen this before).
'to consume' indicates putting letters inside.
'honeyed drink' becomes 'mead' (I've seen this before).
'lie' enclosing 'mead' is 'LIMEADE'.

'and' is the link.

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(Other definitions for limeade that I've seen before include "Winter festival" , "Fizzy drink" , "it's a soft one" , "soft drink" , "Fruity drink" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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