| BREW | Mixture of, oddly, barley and whiskey (4) |
| AREA | Zone of oddly awry eras (4) |
| BEER | Beverage typically brewed with malted barley and hops (4) |
| ORZO | Italian for "barley", and pasta in the shape of its grains |
| LEGS | What no centipede has exactly 100 of, oddly |
| RYES | Bread and whiskey are two |
| PUNS | "Tequila mockingbird" and "whiskey business," e.g. |
| AGED | Like some fine wines and whiskeys |
| THELADY | Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which begins: On either side the riverlie /Long fields of barley and of rye (3,4,2,7) |
| OFSHALOTT | Poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which begins: On either side the riverlie /Long fields of barley and of rye (3,4,2,7) |
| STEMROT | Fungal infection of wheat, barley and other crops (4,3) |
| HORDEUM | A vast crowd, um, reveals genus of barley and foxtail barley (7) |
| SCOTCHBROTH | Soup of beef or mutton with pearl barley and vegetables |
| PRESCRIBE | Recommend the use of oddly neglected Greek writer after a bit of persuasion (9) |
| IMPOUND | Seize and take legal possession of oddly dismissed film on poet (7) |
| AGRICULTURE | Activity of oddly crude rural git? |
| SEMANTICS | Meaning of oddly steamy high jinks (9) |
| SUI | Admirer of oddly stupid, yet rugged, prominence (6) |
| TOR | Admirer of oddly stupid, yet rugged, prominence (6) |
| DITCH | Middle of oddly long trench (5) |
