Packs the drunken sots out of the way! (5)
I believe the answer is:
stows
'packs' is the definition.
(stowing is a kind of packing)
'drunken sots out of the way' is the wordplay.
'drunken' indicates an anagram.
'out of' means one lot of letters goes inside another (some letters on the outside of others).
'the way' becomes 'w' (Compass direction - West).
'sots' is an anagram of 'stos'.
'stos' placed around 'w' is 'STOWS'.
'the' is the link.
(Other definitions for stows that I've seen before include "Scots crops in > stores" , "Packs away" .)