Related Clues:

• Reading material, for short
• Glowing, perhaps
• English class, for short
• Started, as a cigarette
• High on highballs, e.g.
• Drunk or immersed in liquid
• Intoxicated, frequently so
• Ignited, say cigarette
• Happening during intoxication, under the influence
• Drunk, pickled
• Any more would get a response
• Having been fired, he might make it supple
• How one got fired
• Could you get any response from this?
• Employed like this, 4 across gets pickled