Doing today's cryptic in the NYT I have a couple that I think I have answers for but I'm not able to come up with a full rationale for them. Any comments?

I have _ _ N _ G _ T. The clue is "running into drunk this evening. I'm thinking T O N I G H T, where the T O N I is the 'into drunk' but I can't make the G H T mean anything.

The first T is the middle letter of G _ _ _ R clued 'swamp critter spat audibly' …

Nemmine. I just figured that one out.