Possible Clues:

• Says one could be sure of getting around a teetotaller
• What one does when one 9 across
• After a century they would be all at sea, in a manner of speaking
• That could be the truest thing one ever says
• States, articulate
• T's true, says you
• Speaks to whole society
• The absolute South? Sez you!
• Assays, perhaps, for sure about a teetotaller
• Absolute southern states?