SOUSE

Pickled food

• AA candidate

• Barfly

• Booze hound

• Boozer

• Dipso

• Drench

• Drinker

• Drinker taking pint from wife, perhaps (5)

• Drunk

• Drunkard

• Elbow-bender

• Far from a casual drinker

• Fields character Egbert

• Fields in The Bank Dick

• Fields persona

• Guzzler

• He can't pass the bar

• Immerse

• Inebriate

• Lush

• Make drunk, slangily

• No casual drinker

• One unlikely to pass the bar

• One who's blitzed at the bar

• Pickle

• Pickled pig

• Pickling liquid

• Plunge into water

• Rummy

• Soak with water

• Steep in brine

• Swillpot

• Tippler

• Town drunk

• W. C. Fields persona

• W.C. Fields, in The Bank Dick

• W.C. Fields's role in The Bank Dick, Egbert ___

• A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually

• Pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled

• The act of making something completely wet