Possible Clues:

• It can hold one who's dead drunk, they say
• For a wake, that sounds like the right sort of drink (4)
• Coffin carrier
• This might have one coughin' over part of 8 down, by the sound of it
• Stand for a stiff drink in Munich festival
• Frame for coffin
• Coffin with its stand
• Sounds like a drink at the wake
• The last stand?
• By the sound of it some drink for the funeral