| DRUNKARD | Toper or libertine mostly in retreat, held by doctor and in Germany (8) |
| LOTHARIO | Character in 1702 Nicholas Rowe stage play The Fair Penitent whose name has come to mean any rake or libertine (8) |
| PLACATE | Calm appreciated in retreat held in location (7) |
| ASIA | Samurais attack in retreat held in continent (4) |
| JUICER | A cider press, lemon squeezer, reamer or other fruit-essence extractor; a dipso, tippler, toper or wino; or, with "lime", a dated somewhat-disparaging nickname for a British sailor/person (6) |
| RITUAL | Working group in retreat held up? It's often repeated (6) |
| RUMMY | A word for an odd peculiar person; a dipsomaniac, toper or winebibber; or, a card game, such as gin (5) |
| SOT | A somewhat old-fashioned word, from "fool", for a dipsomaniac, sponge, tippler, toper or winebibber (3) |
| AMBIENCE | Atmosphere produced by doctor and nice orderly in Accident & Emergency (8) |
| DISRAELI | PM is protected by doctor and a priest (8) |
| OPIUMDEN | Drugs taken here work on virus every now and then, supported by doctor and nurse (5,3) |
| MARMOSET | Primate's limb held by doctor to put back after break |
| DRILLERS | Less healthy, surrounded by doctors and dentists? (8) |
| TROLLOPE | Author, cave dweller and uninhibited toper (8) |
| MAUNDY | Annual ceremony in England and in Germany in part of spring (6) |
| FRUMPISH | Dowdy toper similatively pinching bottom (8) |
| BANDITOS | Toper I'd arrest after flipping bunch of crooks |
| COLOGNE | Fraud takes in Branch from Spain and in Germany (7) |
| UNDERGROWN | And in Germany, over the outskirts of Wiesbaden, Roger manoeuvred and stunted (10) |
| RIOJA | Wine found in South American city, and in Germany, yes? |
