| BINGEDRINKING | Perhaps begin knocking it back - makes one get knocked out (5,8) |
| NINE | Prime Time perhaps begins on the extremes of nihilistic magazine (4) |
| GODOWN | Retired boxer perhaps begins personal decline (2,4) |
| SALEBYAUCTION | Get knocked down (4,2,7) |
| REBUYTOURNAMENT | You can't get knocked out in one hand in this* |
| TAKETHECOUNT | Be a teller perhaps, and get knocked out (4,3,5) |
| ERR | Get knocked out of the spelling bee |
| YEARDOT | Beginning? Ready to get knocked out? (4,3) |
| ANAESTHETISE | See a hesitant drunk get knocked out |
| COUNT | Get knocked out, as census enumerators do (4,3,5) |
| TAKETHE | Get knocked out, as census enumerators do (4,3,5) |
| TEE | Something that might get knocked out of the ground by a golf swing |
| UNTIE | After knocking it back, couple gets loose |
| BOOZEUP | Slob in bar, knocking it back? (5-2) |
| FLEECES | Soaks run dry, after knocking it back |
| DEPOT | In the station, drank a lot, knocking it back |
| BUTTERUP | Flatter, say, when in the pub, knocking it back (6,2) |
| RICOTTA | Some Muscat to circulate - knocking it back with cheese (7) |
| TIRE | Get knocked out |
| LOSE | Get knocked out |
