| MINIBARS | Hotel room refrigerators/cellarets stocked with nibbles, piccolo bottles of wine, soft drinks etc for guests (8) |
| MELLOW | Word used to mean juicy, ripe or sweet, as of fruit; well matured, as of wine; soft, as of colour/sound; kind through old age; or, genially drunk (6) |
| CLARET | The Frenchman left the cellaret with a red (6) |
| BITSANDPIECES | Divide sandwich flan with cream toping, surround it with nibbles and an assortment of stuff (4,3,6) |
| MINIBAR | Hotel room refrigerator (7) |
| CASHEWNUT | About to demonstrate to teachers with nibble (6,3) |
| CASE | A box containing 12 bottles of wine or champagne; an item of luggage; or, a brace of pistols (4) |
| CASEIN | Twelve bottles of wine from centre of Wellington has a milky component (6) |
| SCREWTOPS | Crow pests are used for some chemical bottles (and cheaper bottles of wine!) (5,4) |
| REVEL | Have a few drinks etc. and the bar may be spinning round |
| BINEND | One of the last remaining bottles of wine |
| RACKS | Frameworks, stands, holders etc in various forms for toast, bottles of wine, magazines, spice jars, plates, dishes, letters, snooker balls... (5) |
| BINS | Containers in various forms for bread, coal, compost, litter, waste paper etc; or, stands in which to store bottles of wine in cellars (4) |
| SODA | Alkaline substance used in cleaning, drinks etc (4) |
| ORDERS | Requests for drinks etc (6) |
| REFRESHMENT | Drinks etc |
| CHIT | From Hindi for "note, pass", a short letter; a signed bill recording a sum owed for food, drinks etc; or, from "kitten", a child or an impudent girl (4) |
| CASES | Boxes containing 12 bottles of wine, champagne or prosecco sold as units (5) |
| COMBINE | Show up carrying a few bottles of wine for associate (7) |
| CHAMP | Solver who has correctly identified five bottles of wine today, e.g. |
