Possible Clues:

• A lofty kind of evening meal
• Tee up, perhaps, and get fed up with it
• By the sound of it, meet up there, of course
• Lo, by the sound of it, that would not be the way to start to make a meal of it
• Off the drink at this meal?
• That's when 'e might get filled up with a thigh
• Afternoon meal served to airline passengers?
• Drunk, leaves meal
• Ate unwisely attending expensive meal
• On drugs, initially thrown inside for year, one's served around four