| IDCARD | What young folks need to buy alcoholic drinks or get into a bar (2,4) |
| COCKTAILLOUNGE | An upscale bar typically in a hotel, or airport where one can buy alcoholic drinks (8,6) |
| ORATION | Talk or get into a mess |
| EDITOR | Go on a diet or get into the newspaper business (6) |
| TAKETO | Develop a fondness for, or get into the habit of (4,2) |
| HOURGLASSES | What we nearsighted folks need when watching movies? |
| NICKELODEON | Barely, folks need coin to play jukebox (11) |
| SHARPEYE | Observant or alert folk need one of these - pays here (anag) (5,3) |
| ISLATE | Feels the need to buy a Clearblue kit, say |
| ROUNDS | Turns to buy drinks or bullets (6) |
| SALADE | An ornate French antique sofa; an amuse-bouche served with drinks; or, a method of bidding in bridge (6) |
| CARTON | Container in which drinks or foodstuffs are packaged (6) |
| TINCTURE | Word for a dye or pigment that, from the sense "imparted quality", came to mean a pharmaceutical or medicinal extract; an alcoholic drink; or, a slight aroma, flavour or trace (8) |
| NESTLE | What young often do in earnest - learn |
| DEBATE | Dispute what young woman consumed (6) |
| SALOON | A South African bird walked into a bar (6) |
| FAKEID | Card used to sneak into a bar |
| CASK | From a Spanish word for a helmet, a barrel in which to store real ale, whisky, wine or other alcoholic drink; or, the quantity contained therein (4) |
| ICEPICK | A prong similar to a bradawl for sculpting a frozen block or breaking it into cubes for cocktails/drinks; or, a mountaineer's piolet-like tool (3,4) |
| SUNDOWNER | Informal term for a tramp, a strict ship's officer, an alcoholic drink or a lazy sheepdog |
