| LADDISH | Having had some lager - dead drunk at the start - his problem? (7) |
| TOMB | Q: How did the mummy start his letter?" A: "___ it may concern ..." |
| BLOCK | Spooner says cad's loud music is why he can't start his book (7,5) |
| WRITERS | Spooner says cad's loud music is why he can't start his book (7,5) |
| NONALCOHOLIC | Like some lager in cool can drunk around house by the litre |
| NEATEN | Tidy garden at last, having had some food (6) |
| NIGHTCAP | Stupid thing from Cork is always drunk at the end of the day (8) |
| KERBSTONE | Kent, sober? Drunk at the side of the road (9) |
| SLAPDASH | Slovenly friend turned up drunk at the opening, breaking up the band (8) |
| CANNED | Like some lager - and some of its drinkers, eventually? |
| TODATE | Before now Dorothy gets up, having had some food (2,4) |
| TOILETRY | In Hollywood, John Barry, having had some music cut for soap? (8) |
| DECAF | Looked up having had some coffee (5) |
| PUBLICSPIRITED | Generous people having had some gin perhaps |
| DROWNED | One way to be dead drunk: swallowing beer at the end (7) |
| AHAIROFTHEDOGTHATBITHIM | Maybe setter's part solution to his problem arriving the morning after? |
| SEAWATER | One member of overseas Special Forces nearly gets drunk at The Tap - it holds the ship up! (8) |
| DRUMMER | Musician drunk at the outset, seen with large glass (7) |
| MOMBASA | Port, as drunk at the end of second degree |
| ALES | Compromise lawyer holding up those drunk at The Bar (4) |
