| WIDOWER | Surviving spouse gets dentist's directive to bottle a cry of pain (7) |
| CHIANTI | Note Italian's first to bottle a new kind of wine |
| SAUVIGNONBLANC | Hire French chef to bottle a classy volume of wine (9,5) |
| CANTEEN | From "cellar, a word for a sutler's shop in a barracks, camp or garrison originally, later a soldier's water bottle; a set of cutlery; or, a cafeteria (7) |
| MILKMAN | A many-bottle-a-day chap, but he takes back the empties (7) |
| EXCITED | Worked up, as former spouse gets summoned to court (7) |
| SMASHUP | Squash drink bottles a this leads to a big accident (5-2) |
| EXEMPLA | Former spouse gets ample work for models (7) |
| BUTLERY | Meaning "place for bottles", a storeroom for food, liquor and wine; or, a university's tuck shop (7) |
| SAMBUCA | Sea cub master knocked back bottles ... a hangover in waiting? (7) |
| FLOSSED | Obeyed a dentist's directive |
| DESPAIR | Endless desire to bottle up father's gloom (7) |
| BASTION | Good to bottle wine that's fortified (7) |
| PUNT | A dimple in the base of a glass wine bottle; a type of drop kick for touch in rugby; a bet/gamble on horses or in roulette; a point in faro; or, a riverboat propelled with a quant (4) |
| SHERBET | Place to bottle basil drink (7) |
| MANDATE | Directive to take gent on date (7) |
| SITDOWN | TV host's directive to the standing audience: 2 wds. |
| NEBULAR | Cloudy oil: managed to bottle that up |
| BEADPROOF | On sides of bottle, a drop formed of high alcoholic content (4-5) |
| DOWER | Real estate given to a surviving spouse |
