| PELASGIC | Quietly returned cigarettes and beer of old Greeks |
| SMOULDER | Smoke last of cigarettes and decay (8) |
| PRECEDED | Came first but quietly returned (8) |
| SPARTANS | These old Greeks lived frugally and harshly (8) |
| LONESTAR | Beer marketed as "the National Beer of Texas" |
| NICOTINE | Nerve stimulant active in cigarettes and some agricultural insecticides |
| SAMADAMS | Official beer of the Boston Red Sox, familiarly |
| LIGHTSUP | Has a cigarette and looks happier (6,2) |
| HECATOMB | It's a great sacrifice for the old Greeks, as each suspect comes to grave ending perhaps (8) |
| SOCRATES | Old Greek's distress message about container (8) |
| HELLENIC | Dis nurse in charge related to very old Greeks |
| BREW | Word for a cup of tea, a ferment, a mash, a witch's potion or a zymotic beer of barley or wheat, all boiling down to the ancient idea of bubbling, burning, effervescing and heat (4) |
| SMOKING | The use of cigarettes and cigars |
| STUB | End of cigarette and start of steam bath (4) |
| PSEUDOARCHAIC | Fees quietly returned before row, with article in style like Wardour Street English |
| PEW | We quietly returned church seat (3) |
| BITTER | Description of the flavour of black coffee, chicory, hoppy beer of the same name, orange peel, plain chocolate, quinine or tonic water (6) |
| TOBYJUG | Container of beer of character |
| PBR | Old "The beer of quality" sloganeer, in brief |
| ATF | Government agency that oversees booze, cigarettes, and guns: Abbr. |
