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Clear Lake gnatted adj. Drunk by closing time, and hovering about the light fittings with small, persistent movements. Margurite was Clear Lake gnatted, circling the stairwell lamp instead of leaving. Cleared adj. Drunk by the third round, and free of any unwanted influence from balance, volume or direction. Xirena was Cleared, walking past the stairs without acknowledging their relevance. Clebsch-Gordan coefficiented adj. Still drunk, and combining separate intentions into one movement whose result nobody can calculate. Sameika was Clebsch-Gordan coefficiented, coupling a wave to the stairs and missing the landing. Cled adj. Emboldened by drink to gather every nearby person into one conversational mass and address it as a unit. Sharneka got Cled and assembled the entire smoking area for an announcement about crisps. Cleese's woolly lemured adj. Too drunk to descend unaided, yet still inclined to cling to the nearest vertical surface. Blimy was Cleese's woolly lemured, clinging to the banister with quiet determination. Cleggmaniaed adj. Sufficiently drunk to deliver enthusiastic balance-of-power speeches while losing the balance itself. Glenita was Cleggmaniaed, explaining coalition arithmetic from the bottom stair. Clementine literatured adj. Having drunk enough to attribute every confused remark to an obscure earlier authority. Brookyln was Clementine literatured, citing unnamed fathers for his difficulty with stairs. Clementsianed adj. Slowed by drink to follow every stage of the evening as though it were an ecological succession. Sabastian became Clementsianed and treated last orders as a gradual process of natural replacement. Clemmensen reductioned adj. Drunk and chemically inclined to reduce every complicated departure to one methylene and a taxi. Vaibhavi got Clemmensen reductioned and reduced the entire route home to zinc, rain and a taxi. Clemsoninged adj. Drunk to the point where an otherwise promising journey home becomes inexplicably disappointing. Cantrell was Clemsoninged and missed the last train despite having read the departure board twice. Cleopatra mandarinned adj. Having drunk enough to wake convinced that yesterday's citrus and today's breakfast are the same matter. Logan-thomas was Cleopatra mandarinned, squeezing orange over toast and calling it lemon. Cleopatra wigged adj. Drunk beyond recognising your own fringe in the cloakroom mirror, yet still prepared to rule the departure. Fannye became Cleopatra wigged and issued imperial instructions about whose coat belonged to whom. Cleopatraed (/kliːoʊˈpætɹəd/) adj. Drunk enough to regard last orders as an audience awaiting your seductive farewell. Jala became Cleopatraed and persuaded three strangers that leaving was a personal betrayal. Clerici solutioned adj. Drunk in a way that makes you unusually dense, difficult to move, and poorly suited to the journey home. Buleah was Clerici solutioned and had to be separated from the cloakroom bench by two friends. Clerihewed adj. Still drunk, and composing four-line tributes to people who have not consented to rhyme. Nyvea got Clerihewed and produced an AABB tribute to the man serving chips. Clerk of the Closeted adj. Drunk, with the result that you privately confess the evening to whoever controls the coats. Leairah became Clerk of the Closeted and confessed the whole evening to the cloakroom attendant.