| FROLIC | "And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, / Make the sage ____, and the serious smile" (Pope, translating Homer) |
| OPENSANDWICH | Chops and wine can make an appetising snack (4,8) |
| FIVESENSES | Wits the single white owl in the belfry warms (4,6) |
| SCARES | Frightens someone out of their wits with cows (6) |
| HEINOUS | Wicked vergers out of their wits (7) |
| ROSEMARY | Parsley, Sage, ___ and Thyme, Simon and Garfunkel album (8) |
| REMINDS | "The sage in bloom; Is like perfume; Deep in the heart of Texas; ... me of; The one I love; Deep in the heart of Texas" |
| RANI | First name of the actress whose film 'Mardaani 3' focuses on the serious issue of child trafficking. (4) |
| GATESHEAD | The Royal Northern Sinfonia is based at Sage ____, which was designed by Norman Foster and opened in 2004 |
| PALETTEKNIFE | Sounds like taste of wine can be shape or can strip paint (7,5) |
| PICAROON | From the Spanish for "rogue", an adventurer, cheat, pirate, scoundrel or person living by their wits (8) |
| ENMITY | Bitterness of the last of the sage and wild mint from yard (6) |
| NANDI | White bull in Hinduism ridden by the god Shiva, described as the son of the sage Shilada (5) |
| PORTIA | Wine can make one a most learned judge (6) |
| PORT | Type of wine can be left at sea |
| VARIETAL | This type of wine can damage TV aerial (8) |
| BODY | With a soul, it makes up a person. Though wine can have it without a soul (4) |
| GRAVEL | Like the path of the serious student? |
| SCREW | Payment made when the gang are at their wits" end (5) |
| ALLTHERE | The attendants, without exception, having their wits about them (3,5) |
