| DAMSON | A barrier to boy getting food (6) |
| GULLET | A little bird, you might surmise, in a passage getting food? (6) |
| WALLOP | Strike is a barrier to work (6) |
| TUCKER | Singer Sophie getting food for Nellie Melba? (6) |
| WALLET | The pocketbook is a barrier to an extra-terrestrial |
| TINCAN | Thug initially in prison getting food container (3,3) |
| LITTLE | Vacuous boy getting into briefs slowly (6,2,6) |
| FLAYED | You once laid into loud boy, getting criticised (6) |
| LADDIE | Boy getting left - tot, that is (6) |
| WEEPER | One sad little person, boy getting lost (6) |
| THOMAS | Boy getting nought in maths mix-up (6) |
| BICEPS | Boy getting chills, having bit of pus in muscle (6) |
| BOLTED | Boy, getting old (around ten, almost), ran off (6) |
| GALLON | Girl meets boy getting petrol (6) |
| KELVIN | Boy getting over initially low temperature |
| FILLIP | Picked up, boy getting lift |
| SALADS | Salvation Army boys getting cold dishes (6) |
| HALTED | Stopped the two boys getting together (6) |
| STANDORDERING | Prelude to getting food at a state fair? |
| TAPE | After a barrier to crime, Hitchcock initially does movie reels to make family films (4,4,6) |
