### Clue: Perhaps nursery workers gather before start of school, requiring requiring Dutch courage ultimately (9)
### Answer: GARDENERS 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Perhaps nursery workers
 [ GARNER(to gather or store, as with grain, say) **placed above**(before, in a down clue) **1st letter of**(start of) "school " ] **containing**(requiring) [ D(abbrev. for "Dutch") + **last letter of**(… ultimately) "courage " ].
Defn: … in a garden, and not, as the surface suggests, of nursemaids drinking.