| ATTENTIVE | Careful mother not starting to drink red wine |
| DRASTIC | Radical starts to drink red wine cold (7) |
| HUMDRUM | Buzz on starting to drink liquor, commonplace (7) |
| BEDRIDDEN | Unwell, ordered to drink red concoction |
| MADEAFACE | Mother, not able to hear one, grimaced (4,1,4) |
| MASON | Mother's not off to see stonecutter (5) |
| KINDREDSPIRIT | Having like-minded companion, drink red - sip it after decanting |
| BULL | Energy drink Red ___ turned 30 (4) |
| SALZBURG | Austrian city where the energy drink Red Bull was created (8) |
| HELEN | Constantine's mother, not a beautiful woman |
| MAINLAND | South Island mother, not at the seaside (8) |
| MANIC | Very busy mother not totally pleasant (5) |
| CHERUB | Innocent child -baby hugging mother, not half! (6) |
| MATTERED | Mother not drinking before daughter was important |
| MATTEROFFACT | Unemotional mother not fancying performance containing minimum of theatricality (6-2-4) |
| MAILED | First, mother not well but sent a letter (6) |
| HYALONEMA | The reason a single mother (not wife) makes sponge (9) |
| MUSLIM | Mother, not entirely thin, is a follower of Islam (6) |
| CATHEDRAL | Irishman drinks red liquid in church |
| SPIDERS | Standing inside slowly drinks red, possibly cruising the web (7) |
