| APERITIF | I fear tip improper for champagne, perhaps |
| REHOBOAM | A large container for champagne, the equivalent of six standard bottles (8) |
| CHAMPERS | Informal term for champagne (8) |
| STEMWARE | Collective noun for champagne flutes, sherry schooners, water goblets, wine chalices and other glasses with characteristic stalk-like balusters, pretties, shanks or twists (8) |
| AEROFOIL | Blade shaped to produce lift - I fear loo (anag) (8) |
| JEREMIAH | Present judge harbouring intention to retire: I fear the worst! (8) |
| BRIGADES | Burning bridges I fear will need their services (4,8) |
| AIRRIFLE | Weapon I fear I left close to minor carelessly |
| SCENARIO | A censor I fear will object to this plot (8) |
| DROWSIER | Comparatively heavy weapon held up, I fear, at intervals (8) |
| FARGESIA | Genus of clump-forming bamboos - sag, I fear, all over the place (8) |
| FERENTES | Bearing, as in "I fear Greeks ..." (~es/is aequum est) |
| CRACKOPEN | Take lid off champagne perhaps for break with Frank (5,4) |
| PALMERSTON | Normal step improper for a prime minister once |
| PERFORMER | It's improper for merriment to grip actor (9) |
| PERFORATE | Riddle somewhat Improper for a teenager (9) |
| ALFREDTHEGREAT | He felt rag trade improper for member of royal family |
| WINE | Success with English champagne, perhaps |
| VIOLIN | Fiddle pouring mixture of oil into champagne, perhaps (6) |
| MAGNUMOPUS | Order soup to follow champagne perhaps? Great work! (6,4) |
