| BOATDECK | Drunken date getting stuck into beer where the floor may start to sway! |
| SWING | Drink around nine, to start with, and start to sway (5) |
| OCEAN | Where the floor is always wet |
| SEA | Where the floor is always wet |
| CARPETED | Pulled up floor may be so (8) |
| SPHAGNUM | Occupant of bogs starts to sway perilously, holding capless wine bottle (8) |
| ALPINE | Peg, getting stuck into beer, on the slippery slope? |
| AIMLESS | I'm getting stuck into beer vessel without end (7) |
| PINOT | Love getting stuck into beer and wine |
| ALECGUINNESS | Actor Charlie getting stuck into beer (stout) |
| HARNESS | May start to have right, up to a point, to get some tackle (7) |
| SEEKINGOUT | Trying to find date, getting complaint following relations (7,3) |
| BEDSITTER | Newspaper bosses got stuck into beer that's flat (9) |
| EMPHYSEMA | Sheep may start to mate playfully: it will progress into a far from jolly wheeze (9) |
| WHISKYMAC | Liquid may start to curdle after utensil used to mix cocktail (6,3) |
| CLEARANCESALE | Permission to get small beer where everything must go |
| BETIDE | Happen to predict current date getting disheartened |
| STANDONESGROUND | Buy the drinks, having drunk gallons, and don't sway! |
| WHARFEDALE | Report of key journalist - beer where Yorkshire river flows (10) |
| PALESTRA | Piano star drunk on beer, where classical training took place (8) |
