Possible Clues:

• Alcoholic drink taken before meal
• Drink weary old man raised with uncertainty
• A fanciful beauty bringing back appropriate drink
• Having strong anger, father takes up drink
• Drink before meal
• Copyright it, provided it's served before Christmas dinner, for example
• A fairy might fit up a drink before we eat
• Say, what could be missing after punch in the mouth? A drink!
• Sherry, often
• Drink stimulating the appetite