Possible Clues:

• In the first place
• In the beginning
• First love I trap in stages
• At first, single spirit taken in by usual method?
• First one drink's taken in by mouth
• Old doctor summed up year in a new way
• One drink taken in by mouth to start with
• Old friend guarding equipment at home, in the first place
• Ring trendy friend about gear at first
• Start to join up in an imaginative way