Possible Clues:

• and 16: Mixture of drinks American knocked back during equine trials, excitedly
• The French -- after unusually quiet drink
• Note who the French shot?
• Margarita ingredient
• Student partial to quite a fashionable, cooler cocktail
• Cocktail — 1988 American crime film — equaliser units (anag)
• 1958 #1 hit whose only lyric is its title word
• Drink booked with 1 across 23, roughly speaking?
• Interrupting meal briefly throw one in the slammer
• Drink cuppa with most of cinnamon roll eaten