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Weekend Peer Review 201

Welcome to our weekend competition to compose a cryptic clue to be judged by your fellow contestants. You may enter as many clues as you like, and everyone is welcome, particularly new entrants. Feel free to explain your clue if you think it will help, or to ask another entrant to parse their clue. However, please don't comment on the clues before voting closes.

Clues should be posted before noon (UK time) on Sunday the 10th of September, when voting opens. Voting closes at 6pm the same day.

This weekend’s challenge is:

COFFEE (6)

Have fun and good luck!

Weekend rules: Each entrant has six votes to allocate across any of one to six clues (no fractional votes allowed). For example, the allocation might be 3/2/1 for the top 3 clues, and many other allocations are possible. In the event of a tie, the number of first place votes will be taken into consideration (if those are equal, 2nd place votes, etc.).

Future setters should note that a complete list of words used previously in Clueless, Peer Review and Weekend Peer Review is available here https://tinyurl.com/4dzss5np

Back in the reef - focus on stimulant (6)

Joe’s taken offence badly (6)

(offence -n)*

Caught buying alcohol here - or something softer? (6)

UK English; "OFFIE" is slang for OFF_LICENSE - a shop where you can buy alcohol.
"CAUGHT" functioning as "C" and as a homophone indicator for OFFEE

It’s ground with ice served in country club retreat (6)

ice = OFF (as in to kill)
country club = EEC (rev)

Hanks's wing-man caught drunk (6)

Refers to film THE GREEN MILE and John Coffey. One of the best ever starring Tom Hanks where John Coffey is a simple man on death row who is innocent and has miraculous powers.

As a result of business failure, charge for drink (6)


COF - Conseuence of failure. Who knew!

Start cake when ban on pie is lifted - and wash it down with this? (6)

C (BAN)OFFEE (pie f the uninitiated...)

(forgot my physics A level...)

Friction experienced with motion to apply charge for soft drinks (6)

It sounds like Edmonton defenseman's name is mud (6)

Mud is diner slang for coffee; shamelessly pandering for the Canadian vote, should there in fact be one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Coffey

Paul Coffey is so famous in Canada that 99% of Canadians surveyed would answer "Paul Coffey" if asked to name an Edmonton defenseman.

I'm also assuming "his name is mud" is a common idiom on both sides.

No clue that takes this long to explain has a snowball's chance....