| SETATRAP | Get the gin ready (3,1,4) |
| HASTENING | Hurrying to get the gins an' mixers (9) |
| GETTINGAGRIP | Getting gin ready (7,1,4) |
| IGNITION | Having demolished the gin and It, I get on with the firing |
| SCHIEDAM | Port in the Netherlands associated with the gin industry (8) |
| ESCAPING | Paces about on seeing the gin leaking out (8) |
| HEIGHTEN | Increase intensity of the gin he fermented (8) |
| SHOCKING | Into the gin's poured wine. Its awful (8) |
| YACHTING | Sailing on a luxury boat, clumsy Cathy smashed the gin (8) |
| TERRIBLE | Rove around the gin barrel, with grim after effects (8,8) |
| HANGOVER | Rove around the gin barrel, with grim after effects (8,8) |
| THROWING | Giving a party, it's maybe worth being free with the gin (8) |
| ILSA | The "she" of "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine" |
| OFALL | Famous quote from the 1942 film Casablanca, "_ _ the gin joints in all the towns in all the world..." (2,3) |
| DIGIN | Get stuck into the food, Di - and the gin! (3,2) |
| TAMING | The person back on the mat with the gin concoction needs bringing into line (6) |
| RICKS | "Of all the gin joints..." gin joint |
| ENTRAP | Get in the gin ___ a parent is upset (6) |
| NIGHTIE | The gin I poured out in the bedroom (7) |
| SIGNALS | Intimations that the lass is into the gin (7) |