| JUICE | Energy, or a drink |
| RENEWABLE | Another name for alternative energy, or a colloquial word for any form of usable energy derived from replenishable sources (9) |
| VIM | Energy, or a capacity for vigorous activity (3) |
| PUMPUPTHEVOLUME | What a deejay might do to create energy ... or a request that may lead to 17-, 25- and 46-Across |
| EYEOPENER | Informal word for a startling revelation; something that provides a sudden insight; or, a drink or "heart starter" taken in the morning (3-6) |
| CRUSH | A squash/squeeze; an infatuation or "pash"; or, a drink made from the juice or pulp of pressed fruit (5) |
| COASTER | Ship sailing along the shoreline or engaged in littoral trade; or, a drinks mat modelled on a decanter holder that rolled or glided across a table top (7) |
| NOG | A small block, peg or pin of timber; or, a drink also called egg-flip (3) |
| SNOWBALL | A frozen missile or a drink (8) |
| SNAKEBITE | An injury inflicted by a venomous fork-tongued serpent; or, a drink of cider and lager in equal measures (9) |
| AMERICANO | Whipped cream in a doughnut, say, or a drink |
| ELA | Old music note (or a drink backwards) |
| SAP | Name given to the vital juice of plants; energy or vigour; a fool or gull; or, from "dig a tunnel" or "undermine", a word for "drain, exhaust, weaken" (3) |
| THERM | From Greek for "heat", a unit of said energy; or, an old word for a bathing establishment, such as a hot bath (5) |
| SPASMS | Word for convulsions, cramps, starts, tics, twitches or other sharp muscular contractions; thusly sudden bursts of activity, emotion or energy; or, jocular slang for stanzas or verses (6) |
| BEAM | A line of energy or radiation sent in a particular direction (4) |
| FUEL | Based on Latin for "fireplace, hearth", word for coal, gas, oil, petrol, wood etc, burned to produce heat or power; food, as a source of energy; or, any stimulus that inflames emotion (4) |
| BEANS | Chickpeas, coffee seeds, haricots or other such sources of dietary fuel, hence evoked in a phrase meaning brimming with energy or full of vigour (5) |
| PEACE | Speed involving energy or lack of energy (5) |
| LETHARGIC | Arc light working with energy or without energy |
