| SNIFTER | Tipple or dram (7) |
| FUDDLE | Word for a tickle-brain, tipple or other intoxicating beverage first, later a drinking bout; or, the ensuing state of confusion, drunkenness or tipsiness (6) |
| IMBIBE | Have a tipple or two |
| DRINKBEER | To tipple or sink schooners. (5,4) |
| MEASURE | Gram or dram |
| CHASSE | A liqueur or dram taken after coffee; or, a gliding step in ballet (6) |
| SNIPED | Shot, or dram, boy's swallowed back |
| UNIT | Gram or dram |
| RAMROD | Appropriately named upright, stiff Lisbon onion - or dram, perhaps (6) |
| PEGS | Wooden clips with traditional "dolly" types with which to hang one's drying laundry on a clothes-line; spillikins for cribbage; or, drams of whisky or brandy and soda (4) |
| TICKLER | A cane; a dram of spirits; a feather-brush; a memorandum; a trout-guddler; or, a difficult problem, riddle or other perplexing, poking, stimulating, titillating or vellicating person/thing (7) |
| NOBBLER | One who tampers with a racehorse or a greyhound to thwart either beast's chances of winning; a thimblerigger's accomplice; a briber, filcher, grabber, kidnapper, pilferer or swindler; or, a dram of sp |
| DOORMAT | Submissive person given dram too, unexpectedly (7) |
| SNIPPET | Small dram, dear portion (7) |
| YARDARM | Raymond gets dram somewhere on-board (7) |
| AMATEUR | The 'am' in am-dram (7) |
| TINYTOT | A wee dram, just a little one (7) |
| EMERALD | Lee takes dram - it's precious (7) |
| EARDRUM | Rue dram poured into body part (7) |
| ADMIRAL | A dram I possibly left for naval commander (7) |
