| ABSTAINERS | In bar seats, perhaps, but they won't be drinking |
| OUTPATIENT | He's in hospital but they won't let him stay (10) |
| GOBIDESERT | Try tender exotic trees, but they won't grow here (4,6) |
| JACKETPOTATOES | They might have eyes, but they won't be peeled (6,8) |
| SLYBOOTS | Cunning individual repulsed by sitting in bar seats (8) |
| ABSTAINER | He'll be out of place in bar seat |
| VICES | Faults, perhaps, but they can be gripping! (5) |
| OILMEN | Boring chaps perhaps, but they keep us going |
| PINUPS | Pretty girls, perhaps, but they go to the wall (3-3) |
| SENTENCES | Only a few words, perhaps, but they carry conviction (9) |
| IRONIES | Noisier perhaps but they are wryly amusing (7) |
| INFLORESCENCE | It's blooming ridiculous for licensee to be drinking in new clubs (13) |
| DRIVER | One who shouldn't be drinking in 25 (6) |
| IVE | "___ been drinking ... ___ been drinking ..." ("Drunk in Love" lyric) |
| ELECTION | In general is this about names on seats perhaps? (8) |
| SEALEGS | But they won't help you walk on water! |
| TROUGH | Difficult to cross river where animals may be drinking |
| SWILLING | Son prepared to be drinking greedily |
| ARSENIC | As nice as can be, drinking right poison |
| IMBIBING | I'm bribing when I have no right to be drinking (8) |
