He's in his cups
Else clues• Liquid diet devotee
• The ___-Weed Factor (John Barth novel)
• 30 Drunkard
• AA applicant
• AA attendee
• AA candidate
• Alky
• Bar crawler
• Bar ejectee, perhaps
• Bar fixture
• Bar fixture, maybe
• Bar habitu
• Bar magnet?
• Barfly
• Barney on The Simpsons, for one
• Barroom elbow-bender
• Barstool drop-off
• Barstool dweller
• Bibulous one
• Big tippler
• Booze abuser
• Booze hound
• Boozer
• Boozing type
• Bouncer's handful
• Bowery bum
• Brooks persona
• Cold porter fan?
• Constantly stewed dude
• D.t.'s sufferer
• Dean Martin persona
• Dewar's overdoer
• Dipsomaniac
• Drinker
• Driving hazard
• Drunk
• Drunk rocker
• Drunk tank regular
• Drunkard
• Drunken sailor, perhaps
• Elbow bender
• Excessive downer?
• Falling-down drunk?
• Fields characterization
• Fields persona
• Foster Brooks persona
• Foster Brooks portrayal
• Frequent reorderer?
• Guided by Voices album
• Guzzler
• Hard drinker
• He can't pass the bar
• He frequently communes with spirits?
• He has a hard time passing the bar
• He needs drying out
• He's had ten too many
• Heavy drinker
• Heavy drinker, like Barney on The Simpsons
• Heavy imbiber
• Hooch hound
• Imbiber
• Immoderate imbiber
• Inebriate
• Inebriated person
• Inveterate brown-bagger
• Juicehead
• Juicer
• Kind
• Liquor liker
• Lush
• Martini guzzler
• Mayberry's Otis, for example
• More than the occasional drinker
• No teetotaler
• One always taking shots?
• One cut off at the bar, maybe
• One dominated by spirits?
• One from hics-ville?
• One having trouble passing the bar?
• One imbibing rotgut
• One in need of drying out
• One intimately involved with the spirit world?
• One known to hit the bottle
• One likely to be cut off
• One lit in a bar?
• One may be drying out
• One off the wagon
• One often wasted
• One on a liquid diet
• One that's often smashed
• One tippling too much
• One unable to pass the bar?
• One unlikely to pass the bar
• One who can't pass the bar?
• One who drinks too much
• One who finds it tough to pass the bar
• One who is quite a downer?
• One who likes cheap shots?
• One who may not be served
• One who often has one too many
• One who rarely passes the bar
• One who sees pink elephants
• One who tips too much?
• One who's had tee many martoonis
• One who's haunted by spirits?
• One who's usually gone
• One who's very wet?
• One who's well-quaffed?
• One with a gut full of rotgut
• Otis Campbell e.g.
• Otis of Mayberry
• Otis of Mayberry, for one
• Overdrinker
• Pickled one
• Pink elephant sighter
• Pink elephant viewer, perhaps
• Plastered one
• Problem drinker
• Pub crawler
• Quite a downer?
• Regular glass elevator?
• Rummy
• Sauce lover?
• Saucehound
• Saucy fellow?
• Serious elbow-bender
• Shakespeare's Sir Toby, e.g.
• Sighter of pink elephants
• Sir Toby Belch, e.g.
• Slurrer, perhaps
• Soak
• Souse
• Soused sort
• Sponge
• Stew
• Stewbum
• Stewed dude
• Sufferer of the d.t.'s
• Tavern juicer
• Ted Kennedy, some say
• Tipplemeister
• Tippler
• Toper
• Toping type
• Tosspot
• W. C. Fields persona
• W.C. Fields' role
• Wasted one
• Wet one?
• Winebibber
• Wobbly walker
• A chronic drinker