“How whiskey might be served … with a hint to the answers to the seven starred clues”

"___ Talkin' ’bout Love" (Van Halen song)

*Treat with kindness

Noted works of the Roman poet Horace

Brute

Statuette modeled after a knight holding a crusader’s sword

Feeling associated with skipping a party, perhaps

Unchangeable

Horned creature in "Pan's Labyrinth"

Hungers for