Possible Clues:

• Too drunk to stand up
• Drunk on ship when entertaining the French
• Drunk at fifty for example, no more
• Worms are wasted
• Silver was thus, on one side, hammered
• What you feel when you've drunk like a fish?
• Hammered
• This could describe slug under the table
• Very drunk on the French steamship
• Left, say, not as much plastered