Goes berserk after, say, good, strong drinks (3-5)
I believe the answer is:
egg-flips
'drinks' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'goes berserk after say good strong' is the wordplay.
'goes berserk' becomes 'lips' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'after' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'say' becomes 'eg' (both can mean 'for example').
'good' becomes 'g' (abbreviation).
'strong' becomes 'f' (musical symbol for 'forte', 'strong' in Italian).
'eg'+'g'+'f'='eggf'
'lips' after 'eggf' is 'EGG-FLIPS'.
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