Possible Clues:

• At last the backward boy has got a taste for drink
• A spice; a Spice
• According to taste, for instance, it turns up in the ring
• Hot-tasting rootstock
• Fred Astaire's partner - Greer's gringo (anag)
• 31 girl ...
• For a drink the whole of it may go with the half of it
• It's so tasteful - e.g., in a grin like this
• Leader in the revolt (see 33-Down)
• For a drink a redhead might get Reginald back