| LIEAROUND | Be idle, offering story before a whole lot of drinks (3,6) |
| TRAVELLER | Holidaymaker, perhaps one offering story about endless party |
| ARMADILLO | "If you should ever choose / To bathe an ___, / Use one bar of soap / And a whole lot of hope / And seventy-two pads of Brillo": Shel Silverstein |
| GETAROUND | Socialise and buy a lot of drinks (3,6) |
| MASSMEDIA | What's mum missed abroad? A whole lot of papers, TV, etc. (4,5) |
| SUGARRUSH | What a whole lot of kisses might result in |
| EPICENTER | Where there's a whole lot of shaking going on |
| TRAINLOAD | A whole lot of rail freight sounded like cattle after the first downpour (9) |
| RANUPATAB | Signed for lots of drinks, e.g. |
| SALESROOM | Where to get lots of drinks in upland areas, when heading west |
| PUNCHBOWL | One can hold a lot of drink, in deep depression |
| WINDSWEPT | Detective shed tears after a lot of drink, having dishevelled look (9) |
| COIFFEUSE | Stylist and I cutting a lot of drink consumption |
| AESTIVATE | Spend the summer, when retired, sailing round the Virgin Islands with a lot of drink (9) |
| MARESNEST | Whole lot of trouble |
| BETRAYED | Divulged secret - of how a lot of drinks are carried? (8) |
| AROUND | In the vicinity of a lot of drinks (6) |
| WELLIE | Form of footwear that is associated with a whole lot of water? (6) |
| AXING | Getting rid of a whole lot of players no good |
| STRING | A whole lot of or just one source of music (6) |
