| KIR | Cocktail of wine and creme de cassis; Relatives (3) |
| UNWIELDY | Cocktail of wine duly hard to handle (8) |
| IVY | Trailing evergreen "Hedera", once thought to prevent drunkenness, from its association with the god of wine and intoxication, Dionysus, and for its apparent choking of grapevines (3) |
| STINGER | A venom-injecting part of a bee or wasp; a cocktail of brandy and creme de menthe; or, a painful blow (7) |
| BRANDYALEXANDER | Cocktail containing cream and creme de cacao (6,9) |
| HOLLYHOCK | Related to cotton, cacao and hibiscus, a self-sowing cottage garden plant with tall stems of cream, peach, scarlet or creme de cassis flowers (9) |
| BURGUNDY | French wine region noted for its speciality creme de cassis (8) |
| STINGERS | Cocktails with brandy and creme de menthe |
| KIRS | Cocktails with creme de cassis |
| BLACKCURRANT | Small dark purple fruit used to flavour creme de cassis (12) |
| BLACKCURRANTS | The liqueur creme de cassis is made from which fruit? (13) |
| STINGIER | Ever more tight, Julius gets stuck into brandy & creme de menthe (8) |
| OREO | Food that's like a hamburger, but with chocolate biscuits instead of a bun and creme instead of a patty |
| DELA | Word twixt creme and creme |
| HITTHESACK | Drink lots of wine and go to bed (3,3,4) |
| OREOS | Chocolate-and-creme Nabisco cookies |
| ERICCLAPTON | Guitarist with The Yardbirds and Creme (4,7) |
| DAVID | Cookery writer whose books including An Omelette and a Glass of Wine and A Taste of the Sun popularised Mediterranean food in Britain (5) |
| BACCHUS | In ancient Greece and Rome, a god of wine and giver of ecstasy, identified with Dionysus |
| DIONYSUS | In Greco-Roman religion, he is a nature god of fruitfulness and vegetation, especially known as a god of wine and ecstasy. He is also called Bacchus. What is his name? |
