Possible Clues:

• Like vinegar of the highest quality, on credit mostly
• A singleb end to 26 across might be a CID matter
• Vinegar-like
• That's one tea, I see, that's very acid
• It's on the cards that one getsjumpy enough to make one acid
• Is one a CID jerk?
• Discovered that the ship went down - a broken reed
• One jerk like this is enough to make one acid
• One gets a jerk to make it a CID matter
• That Number One jerk is enough to make one acid