| REPUBLIC | Country memorial housing a tavern |
| SCORE | An incised line; a notch in a tally; a set of 20; or, a historical account of charges in a tavern |
| GLASS | "Once upon a time there was a tavern; Where we used to raise a ... or two" |
| ALE | Word for a beverage, feast or festival that, when coupled with bench, bush, cost, draper, hoof, house or wife, refers to a tavern pew, a hostelry sign, beer-flavouring costmary, an innkeeper, cat's-fo |
| BUSH | Historical bunch of ivy as a tavern's or vintner's sign; the wilds; or, a shrubby clump in which to lay wait in a surprise attack, for example (4) |
| VAT | A wine container is upturned in a tavern (3) |
| PUBLICAN | A person who owns or manages a tavern (8) |
| THOSEWERETHEDAYS | "Once upon a time there was a tavern" is the first line of this 1968 single |
| OSTADE | Dutch artist whose works include Peasants in a Tavern, An Alchemist, The Painter in His Workshop and A Cobbler (6) |
| MINNESOTA | State of a tavern English drinker introduced to a graduate (9) |
| NINNY | It takes a simpleton to find a tavern in the Big Apple (5) |
| RUMINATES | After drink, in a tavern at first with a couple of bridge players, thinks carefully (9) |
| IVY | Trailing hederal evergreen plant, historically forming a bunch or "bush", hung up as a tavern sign (3) |
| UPONATIME | "Once ... there was a tavern; Where we used to raise a glass or two" (4,1,4) |
| PINATA | Group in a tavern restraining one getting smashed at a bash? (6) |
| ALLEYCAT | Stray may produce a howl climbing about on a tavern's roof (8) |
| MEDIE | "Let ___ in a tavern...": The Archpoet |
| THERES | '___ a Tavern...' |
| TIPJAR | Container on a tavern piano: 2 wds. |
| HANDLEBARS | Do business like a tavern supplier? |
