| FILLIP | A tonic for the boy, you say (6) |
| WRECKS | Ruins the boy, you say (6) |
| BELLHOPS | Jobs for the boys, you might say, in the hospitality business. (8) |
| RATTRAP | UK No.1 from Boomtown Rats album A Tonic for the Troops (3,4) |
| YODA | "The boy you trained, gone he is" speaker |
| SOLFA | By the sound of it, a tonic for foals (3-2) |
| GNAT | A fly boy, you say (4) |
| REFRESHERCOURSE | Sounds like something offered by catering college is a tonic for those keeping up with latest trends (9,6) |
| OBTRUSIVE | Pushy old boy, you say, strive to reform (9) |
| SALADS | Cold meals for the boy in the crack squad (6) |
| BRACER | Tonic for people in Britain (6) |
| FLUIDS | Freudian slips dismissing Persian with gin and tonic, for instance (6) |
| GODSON | It's his choice for the boy to go after the fairy (6) |
| ERRAND | One of those jobs for the boys (6) |
| MIDLER | Bette of "For the Boys" |
| CHATTANOOGA | The Andrews Sisters asked, "Pardon me, boy; Is that the ... choo choo? Track twenty-nine; Boy, you can gimme a shine" |
| PETERANDTHEWOLF | A piece for the boy and the animal (5,3,3,4) |
| YCHROMOSOME | If you are a boy you will have an X one and this in most cell nuclei (1,10) |
| ALLAYED | A learner, boy you will interrupt and put down |
| CREATION | Are mixed with tonic for a concoction of one's own (8) |
