Possible Clues:

• Drop of the hard stuff?
• Waves down close to front, a certain sign of cold weather
• A single drop of the hard stuff?
• What each of the four longest answers is a term for
• Object that might be likened to a golf ball
• Salutes quality in a drop of the hard stuff?
• Welcome Society to Tyneside, provoking a bit of a storm?
• One part of a frozen waterfall?
• Bit of a storm in a hotel's erupted
• Precipitation pellet