Time to get in drinks — point made by viewer (7)
I believe the answer is:
witness
'viewer' is the definition.
(I know that viewer can be written as witness)
'time to get in drinks point' is the wordplay.
'time' becomes 't' (abbreviation).
'to get in' is an insertion indicator.
'drinks' becomes 'wines' (wine is a kind of drink).
'point' becomes 'S' (South).
't' put inside 'wines' is 'witnes'.
'witnes'+'s'='WITNESS'
'made by' is the link.
(Other definitions for witness that I've seen before include "Bystander" , "It's news (anag.)" , "See (an event or crime)" , "Evidence, proof" , "Observe - evidence" .)