| STRIKING | Knocks back French drink in criminal enterprise as not working (8) |
| CRAM | Knocks back French drink in all-night study (4) |
| DEADDUCK | Has no chance of success as not working with Donald (4,4) |
| COCOA | Company to knock back French wine and soft drink (5) |
| OFFAL | Refuse, as not working on a line (5) |
| EMPIRE | Vast enterprise, as in publishing |
| EASTEND | Part of our capital retrieved from enterprise as ten dividends (4,3) |
| RATSDESERT | (and 20 across, 22 across) Idiom alluding to people who abandon an enterprise as soon as it seems to fail ( (4,6) |
| CAFENOIR | Bubbly of Racine - a French drink in a manner of speaking? (4,4) |
| OMNIVORE | I eat everything - nothing more, swigging back French wine. (8) |
| REDEEMER | Saviour of English leaders immersed in bloody French drink (8) |
| FLAMBEAU | Meat in fine French drink for Chesterton's criminal |
| SKIMOVER | Mention briefly on bender to stir in French drink (4,4) |
| BURGUNDY | One French drink you initially wanted after food is knocked back? |
| TOUSLING | All French drink, sharing last of dregs and tumbling (8) |
| UNPIN | Separate and get a French drink in return (5) |
| LASTOUT | The French drink in bars to keep going (4,3) |
| RACKET | Demarcated group rejecting leader in criminal enterprise (6) |
| CELEB | Name sources in criminal enterprise long before hint of enquiry breaks (5) |
| ABSINTHE | Wormwood's alternative medieval name; or, a French drink traditionally flavoured with said herb's extract (8) |
