All answers relate to sins or other things people try to give up at New Year.
1. Drain losing a monarch quaffing(8)
3. Boxer Joe's vice? (7)
4. Touch mate with love should shake him up enough so he doesn't do this! (3, 3, 4)
5. West African country nearly has shrub (8)
6. An excess of Blair? (8)
9. Point but reluctant (5)
Brain not functioning at all so any help gratefully receive.