1) Affect strangely 2) Desensitise 3) Desensitize 4) Dull with drink 5) Enamor 6) Get a woman drunk 7) Get drunk 8) Get tipsy 9) Inebriate 10) Infatuate 11) Intoxicate 12) Make drunk 13) Make drunk as a skunk 14) Make dull 15) Make dull or stupid 16) Make silly 17) Muddle with drink 18) Muddle with drunkenness Found on https://www.crosswordclues.com/clue/besot
Be·sot' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Besotted ; present participle & verbal noun Besotting .] To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate. « Fools besotted with their crimes. Hudibr... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/B/42
to intoxicate or stupefy with drink. · to make stupid or foolish: a mind besotted with fear and superstition. · to infatuate; obsess: He is besotted by her youth and beauty. Found on https://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/besot