| INSULATE | It keeps ale in the sun if we detach it like this (8) |
| ESCALATE | To get higher, Cate adds a few more ales in the mix (8) |
| BOTHWAYS | This is how the pedestrian should look - you can't have it like this |
| RUBOFTHE | But, putting it like this, gotta be the luck of the Irish... (3,2,3,5) |
| THICKSET | Short and stocky, one might sketch it like this (8) |
| RETRIEVE | Recapture and revere it like this (8) |
| OSTINATO | Persistent rhythm: to be taken up, please beat it like this |
| HOPE | "___ is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you see it, you'll never make it through the night": Princess Leia |
| VALENCIA | Cave in, having consumed most of ale, in resort port on the Med (8) |
| BEHOLDER | Onlooker's ale in cargo space? Quite the contrary (8) |
| EQUAL | The specially-brewed ale in The Queen's Head in the centre of Truro is actually no better or worse than anywhere else (5) |
| TOLERATE | Rebrewed Otter Ale in stomach? (8) |
| HOSTELRY | Drunk shortly to gulp last of ale in pub |
| HONEYBEE | Worker no longer including 'unreal' ale in price (5,3) |
| SHEBEEN | Polish to swallow half the ale in the tavern (7) |
| DRAWER | He may have fetched ale in the tavern out of the chest (6) |
| AHAB | Literary captain who says "I'd strike the sun if it insulted me" |
| EINSTEIN | Clever chap finding last of ale in mug |
| PORTERIN | Ale in Manx resort |
| BEERMATS | Small cardboard coasters collected by tegestologists and placed under halves, jars, jugs, pints, tankards or Tobies of ale in pubs (4-4) |