| HALFSEASOVER | Solve afresh a cryptic, being tipsy |
| PLEA | Make, afresh, a bit of an appeal |
| BINGE | Being tipsy as a result of this? |
| MERRY | Being tipsy, lapse into sin in my embrace (5) |
| ROOTCAUSE | Basic reason to carouse, being tipsy (4,5) |
| OILED | Do lie about being tipsy |
| CORSET | Escort, being tipsy, stays |
| PROUDASPUNCH | Round up chaps being tipsy and cocksure (5,2,5) |
| FUDDLED | Dud, confused, ran out, being tipsy (7) |
| LIGHTHEADEDNESS | Sensed headlight fuzzily, being tipsy (15) |
| SOT | One prone to being tipsy thus over time (3) |
| TEASER | A prankster, ribber, tantaliser or taunter; a brain-twister, mind-bender, poser, puzzle or other riddle; a jaeger; a cryptic advertisement designed to entice or titillate; or, a wool-comber (6) |
| SOBERUP | Old boy regularly heard amid drink has to stop being tipsy? (5,2) |
| SIGNPOST | A pole or stake from which to hang an inn's name board; an "indicator" in a cryptic crossword; a roadside waymark; or, a clue (8) |
| ENIGMA | A cryptic fable or riddle with a hidden meaning to be guessed; a mysterious person who leaves others baffled or distressed; or, a Nazi wartime cipher that put the Bletchley code-breakers' minds to the |
| TIMEANDAGAIN | Repeatedly, or if read a different way, a cryptic way of signaling a letter bank for the other theme answers |
| NOVELIST | In a cryptic sense, it's a pen (8) |
| CALIBRE | Stature of Liberal being looked after in a cryptic manner |
| IMMACULATE | One masters a cryptic clue, catching a bit of trickery that's neat |
| NIGHTJAR | A nocturnal bird with a cryptic plumage and large eyes (8) |
