Possible Clues:

• Boy unenthusiastic about hot drinks
• To a position aboard
• Bits of coal with most of hole for a drink
• Everyone's consuming salmon and wine, say
• Drink totally smothering Pacific salmon
• Intoxicating substance
• Spirit leads to high spirits
• Drug can make almost everybody relaxed, hospital admitted
• Not the right spirits for 12 across
• Wine, perhaps, put all over fish