| CRAITUR | A dram in a hole, by the sound of it (7) |
| PITT | PM in a hole, by the sound of it? |
| MELISSA | Metal put in a hole by a girl (7) |
| BEARPIT | Where you"ll find a grizzly naked hole, by the sound of it (4-3) |
| TICKLER | A puzzle or brainteaser; a poker; a Dickensian word for a cane; a dram of spirits; or, a memorandum (7) |
| NOBBLER | One who tampers with a racehorse or a greyhound to thwart either beast's chances of winning; a thimblerigger's accomplice; a briber, filcher, grabber, kidnapper, pilferer or swindler; or, a dram of sp |
| SNIFTER | Dram in glass (7) |
| STEWARD | Official revealing hole by a road |
| MANIPLE | Chap hides dram in church vestment |
| MATADOR | One in the corrida has a dram to dish out (7) |
| SHALLOT | Take everybody in a dram and something to eat (7) |
| ADMIRAL | A dram I possibly left for naval commander (7) |
| ROADMAP | Plan to have drunk a dram of Pittyvaich, for starters (4,3) |
| DRINKER | Rascal gets a dram for short time in boozer |
| ARMADAS | Fleets set out as a dram is taken (7) |
| SHOVELLER | Small hole by the foreign river for a duck |
| TUNNELLING | Digging a hole by ordering nun to run in (10) |
| SHOT | A gun blast synonymous with conjecture, guesswork or speculation when figuratively undertaken in the dark; otherwise, a dram of spirits; a jab of a drug; or, a serving of espresso (4) |
| DIGGIN | "___' a Hole" by Canadian band Big Sugar |
| BORE | Make (a hole) by drilling (4) |
