| EQUUS | 1973 play by Peter Shaffer about a young man who has a pathological fascination with horses |
| WEPT | "The young man who has not ___ is a savage": George Santayana |
| NIGHT | Horror film remake about a young man who discovers his neighbour is a vampire, Fright ___ (5) |
| ERASED | 2017 Live-action drama film on Netflix based on a manga series about a young man who can time travel |
| BRAVO | Johnny ___ animated show executively produced by Hanna-Barbera which is about a young man who tries to get women to date him |
| CHILDEHAROLD | A young man who is the central figure in a long narrative poem by Lord Byron (6,6) |
| COPPELIA | Which ballet tells the story of a young man who falls in love with a mechanical doll? (8) |
| MATHEMATICIAN | A thematic 1 accepted by man who has a way with numbers? (13) |
| LIFE | 2012 drama about a young man trapped on a boat with a tiger: "___ of Pi" |
| STABLELAD | A young man who works looking after horses (6,3) |
| ANAMERICANGYRATED | Story of a young man who gets carried away and does the Twist? |
| JUDE | ___ the Obscure novel by Thomas Hardy about published in 1895 a working-class young man who dreams of becoming a scholar |
| BINGO | 1973 play by Edward Bond about William Shakespeare (5) |
| CHEAT | The man who has a whip-round is a fraud (5) |
| MANIA | I meet a man who has a craze for it (5) |
| ALADDIN | In The Arabian Nights, a poor young man who obtains a magic lamp and ring (7) |
| MOZART | Fictionalised in a play by Peter Shaffer, a classical composer who wrote Apollo et Hyacinthus when he was 11 and around 600 further compositions throughout his career including RequiemA (6) |
| CRIMEANDPUNISHMENT | Magnum opus about a young man, family and the concept of free will [1866, 1965] |
| HORSE | 2011 drama set in WWI about a young man's devotion to his foal Joey, War ___ |
| THEHOTLLTIMORE | 1973 play featuring a sign with a burned-out "E" |
