Villain overturned brasserie, cracking open whisky with soldiers (10)
I believe the answer is:
malefactor
'villain' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'overturned brasserie cracking open whisky with soldiers' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'soldiers' could be 'or' (Other Ranks) and 'or' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for malefactor that I've seen before include "Wrongdoer" , "bad person?" , "culprit?" , "Sinner" , "One doing wrong" .)