| RUMPUNCH | Drink having strange strength (3,5) |
| PALINODE | English academic, I drink, having gone over poem (8) |
| TROLLOPE | Novelist's to drink, having swallowed bread (8) |
| LEVERAGE | Purchase drink, having left for Belgian capital |
| NIGHTCAP | Close to agreement about drink having sleepy effect? |
| STOTINKA | Decline to accept drink, having answer ready for Bulgarian |
| SUPPOSED | Presumed to drink, having sat for an artist (8) |
| ISOTONIC | (Of a drink) having the same concentrations of salts and minerals as in the body |
| ABSINTHE | Potent green alcoholic drink having a high wormwood content (8) |
| SHAKEUPS | Major shuffles drinks, having eaten fish (5-3) |
| CADFAEL | Brother having strange lace fad (7) |
| DECLUTTER | Put off having strange cult tidy up |
| CULT | Group of people having strange religious beliefs |
| EASYWAYOUT | Relaxed, having strange route to avoid difficulty |
| DODDERY | Unsteady socialist returned, having strange year |
| NOSTRUM | No way having strange medicine (7) |
| ENVY | Five having strange yen outside with covetousness (4) |
| STONE | Nic ___, Neighbours character who has been having strange outbursts (5) |
| CHASTENER | Disciplining person having another drink, having imbibed quite a lot |
| SPEAKEASY | Where to drink, having no trouble with 26 (9) |
