| TATTLER | Gossip later perhaps about a non-drinker (7) |
| RATTED | Do read about a non-drinker getting drunk (6) |
| MATTOCKS | Takes the mickey about a non-drinker's groundbreaking inventions (8) |
| FATTISH | Carp perhaps about a nondrinker being a bit chubby (7) |
| PROTEST | Complain about a non-amateur competition (7) |
| BEATNIK | Ken, taking the bait about a non-conformist (7) |
| ADMIRER | One who loves to read, perhaps about a space station (7) |
| SALADIN | Old sultan's envy, perhaps, about a young man |
| LUCKNOW | But adversity comes later, perhaps, for somewhere in 23? (7) |
| GREATLY | Very much later, perhaps, in guilty extremes (7) |
| ROSETTE | Got up a non-drinker, and began eating as a favour (7) |
| ATTUNED | Made to accord with a non-drinker and a French journalist (7) |
| ATHEIST | A non-drinker he is at heart an unbeliever (7) |
| MOTTLED | Medico, a non-drinker, was first to be spotted (7) |
| BUGATTI | Annoy a non-drinker, one Marque (7) |
| DISTANT | Don initially is a non-drinker, having an entry far off (7) |
| ATTRACT | Appeal to a non-drinker that's holding dray up (7) |
| CATTIER | Many a non-drinker that is right to be more spiteful (7) |
| ATTENDS | Is present there, I say, after a non-drinker finishes (7) |
| ATTACHE | Junior official, a non-drinker and suffering for it |
