| LEGALEAGLE | She might try upright beer and beer laced with a bit of gin (5,5) |
| PALEALE | Punter's beginning on beer, beer and beer (4,3) |
| GRAND | A bit of gin, a bit of rum, and thou (5) |
| TRAP | Returning a bit of gin? (4) |
| MICKEYFINN | Drink laced with a drug which renders the drinker helpless (6,4) |
| EAGER | Up for it always if a bit of gin's involved |
| LOVELY | Sweet that is almost yellow after cooking, laced with a hint of vanilla (6) |
| REELECT | Again choose roll laced with a dash - rum etc (2-5) |
| PART | Bit of gin knocked back (4) |
| PRESBYTERY | Church court might try beer spy uses (10) |
| VERMICELLI | Cooked liver and lime laced with cold pasta (10) |
| ARTTHERAPY | Where you might try to brush away problems |
| HERBICIDES | Rice dish may be laced with toxic stuff (10) |
| ZABAGLIONE | Eggy dessert laced with marsala (10) |
| YOLK | Word, from "yellow", for the golden heart of an egg or sunny orb of an A"uf with which to enrich brioche, custard, fruit curd, mayonnaise or even zabaglione laced with Limoncello (4) |
| ZITS | Teens might try to get rid of them with Clearasil |
| ASTEROID | A chemical weightlifters might try to get a heavenly body (8) |
| NATURALLY | How one suspected of a crime might try to act |
| THREATENING | Her neat gin fizzes laced with smallest splash of tonic -- ominous! (11) |
| ASBESTOS | Lincoln admitting bender with drunks knocking back a mineral laced with harmful stuff (8) |
