Possible Clues:

• Blotto
• Lit
• Pickled
• Drunk? Turf out of employment!
• Drunk, pickled
• Heads of Scotland Office employed drunk
• Drunk or immersed in liquid
• Employed like this, 4 across gets pickled
• It's a bit steep to have got so pickled for her ring
• Soaked, pickled (gherkin); drunk (colloq.)