Possible Clues:

• One's shaken, not stirred, seeing skill in car
• Cunning spiking little drink
• Cocktail made with gin or vodka and vermouth
• Rev. Horton Heat "It's ___ Time"
• It may be served with an olive
• "The elixir of quietude": E.B. White
• Some prefer it dirty
• Gin served with vermouth
• You might drink it dry
• Chap beginning to imbibe cocktail