| ICEBEER | Drink with a higher alcohol content than the norm (3,4) |
| EAUDETOILETTE | Relatively light perfume with a higher aromatic content than cologne |
| CASTIRON | Metal with a higher carbon content than steel |
| ABOVEPAR | Better than the norm (5,3) |
| DRY | Having less vermouth than the norm |
| STEROL | A solid higher alcohol, waxy and insoluble |
| MONUMENTS | Sonnet 55: Not marble nor the gilded ___ / Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme, / But you shall shine more bright in these contents / Than unswept stone besmeared with sluttish time. |
| STEEPER | Endlessly pestered stranger with a higher asking price (7) |
| GOSHAWK | ...my work with a higher bird |
| RETSINA | Alcohol content of clarets in amphoras (7) |
| CONSERVE | Food similar to jam but with a higher content of strawberries, cherries, apricot halves or other fruit with some citrus or rosewater (8) |
| GRAPPA | Italian drink with high alcohol content |
| NEARBEER | Rhyming drink with little to no alcohol content |
| AGIO | In currency exchange, the percentage charged when one currency is exchanged for another with a higher value (4) |
| THREATEN | Look likely to cover low card finally with a higher one |
| HOB | To ___nob, or mix with a higher social class (3) |
| TRAY | Ceiling type with a higher center |
| HATCHING | Infectious, with a higher temperature initially causing brooding (8) |
| SALVO | Volley from e.g. Czech with a higher ball (5) |
| BREATHALYSER | A contrivance used in a test for measuring blood alcohol content that one could potentially fail following consumption of two standard glasses of wine, some 30 mince pies or around 850 chocolate lique |
