Can you solve this clue and if so, how did you get there?

[CharlotteOwlFace]

It's a cryptic crossword clue (if you've seen my other thread, I've decided to try and do stuff that I've never done before and well, a cryptic crossword is one of those things

With good reason, as I now know

So - without googling or giving the answer away if you've actually done this one today - what's your answer? And more importantly, what in this clue got you there?

Because even with the answer I'm still struggling with how it translated to this

STIR COCKTAIL (7)

I would imagine it is an anagram of cocktail? Stir = mix up

Martini.

Shaken not stirred from James Bond.

I can't do cryptic crosswords at all but my parents recommend Big Dave's Crossword Blog as a good explanation of the answers.

Screwdriver

Remember it's 7 letters

Slammer stir being prison. Today's telegraph

@OchonAgusOchonOh that would be very good and I can see where you've come from

It's not right though

Martini

The Bond thing

@moonagedaydreamer oh. Thanks for ruining it already! I did say not to comment if you had done it today

I can't do cryptic crosswords either OP

But yes, it's slammer. As someone who did it today has helpfully pointed out

If martini were the answer wouldn’t the clue be “stirred cocktail”? You have to pay attention to the grammar on crossword clues, they are written very intentionally.

@Cococomellonn I was doing everything. Reading backwards, looking for anagrams and overlap of words.

Slammer

@BreviloquentBastard ah now did you work that out or you did the crossword today

Cross post but it's because stir is slang for prison, slammer is also slang for prison, and a slammer is a cocktail.

So stir = prison = slammer

I dont understand OP

you wanted the answer but only if not from someone who had done the crossword - why does that make a difference?

Some clues won't succumb to the brute force approach and are just a clever bit of standalone punning wordplay. Either you spot it by thinking "maybe Stir isn't an anagram indicator, could it mean something else" or you get all the other letters, realise that SAM_R must be slammer, and then see the pun.

Slammer another word for prison and also a cocktail

I love puzzles and I'm very good at Wordle but cryptic crossword clues leave me totally cold. That one actually does make sense but I'd never have got it, and some cryptic clues just seem ridiculous.

Apparently the Answer might be slammer?

@Cococomellonn

No

I know the answer as I looked it up

I just thought I'd see if anyone else could get it and how they got it. I didn't expect someone who has done it to immediately to say 'slammer , todays telegraph'

Sort of ruins it

But it's only a silly thread so no harm done

It makes no sense to me as I've never heard stir as slang for prison.

I don't understand why only people who didn't do the crossword can answer?!

@Buzzer3555 I couldn't get prison. I know slammer is a slang word for it but I didn't know that Stir was

So I'd never have got it anyway