| TOPING | Drinking a lot of best gin cocktail |
| TOPER | One drinking a lot of "best" with little hesitation (5) |
| TOPE | Drink a lot of Best and start on Export |
| TRYING | Do one's best gin cocktail - it's not easy (6) |
| WRAITHS | Having succeeded, drinking a lot of green spirits (7) |
| ADIPOSE | Fatty's ideas for exercise - drinking a lot of soda (7) |
| ONTHEALERT | Drinking a lot of beer? Right; watchful, too (2,3,5) |
| SODALAKE | Trouble arises, stopping to satisfy by drinking a lot of concentrated water? |
| TIPPLING | Drinking a lot and leaving gratuity, about a pound |
| BOOZING | Drinking a lot |
| SOFTENUP | Work on second at Oxford, drinking a lot |
| LUSH | In the end, will you miss much person drinking a lot? |
| TOUPEE | Something for the head what you need after drinking a lot? That's round the bend (6) |
| ABSTEMIOUS | Cook I mess about, not eating or drinking a lot |
| TEABERRIES | Has a go at drinking a beer, developed as a source of wintergreen |
| SAUSAGEMEAT | It's a custom faced when drinking a cocktail ingredient? |
| SCHOONER | A glass for drinking a large measure of sherry (8) |
| FINGERPAINTING | What digital artist does with eg bit of whisky, say, and beer, drinking a mixed gin (6-8) |
| ALLERGEN | General, after drinking a bit of liquor, produces material capable of causing bodily harm (8) |
| THRUST | So, after drinking a bit of rum with a joint, drive? (6) |