### Clue: Drunk sailor's had to provoke, as it were (2,2,5)
### Answer: SO TO SPEAK 
 ### Explanation: Definition: as it were
 SOT(a drunkard) + O.S.(abbrev. for "ordinary seaman";a sailor) **plus**(had) **homophone of**(…, as it were;so to speak – the defn. and answer doing double duty) "pique"(to provoke;to excite).