### Clue: Pitch where drinks are taken through a straw (5,4)
### Answer: SALES TALK 
 ### Explanation: Definition: Pitch
  ALES(drinks,beers) *contained in*(taken through) STALK(a long, cylindrical slender part of a plant, commonly supporting a leaf, flower, that becomes straw when cut and dried, and that looks like, well, a straw).  I've sometimes seen players take drinks through a straw.  Makes this a nice surface.