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Bottle
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Bottle consumed by familiar artist (8)
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The definition is at the end of the clue.
How the clue works
Look at artist at the end — that's your definition, the Belgian surrealist. Now, bottle here means courage, so think GRIT, and familiar gives you MATE (as in a friend). GRIT gets consumed by (tucked inside) MATE to give you MA-GRIT-TE.