| YOUTH | A young man (5) |
| SWAIN | Word first for a boy servant or for a young man attending a knight, later a country youth or peasant; a rural lover; or, a male suitor or admirer (5) |
| LOTTO | Venetian painter whose Portrait of a Young Man in his Study includes a detail of scattered rose petals thought to allude to the transience of love; or, bingo, a draw or housey-housey (5) |
| NIGHT | Horror film remake about a young man who discovers his neighbour is a vampire, Fright ___ (5) |
| JOYCE | Author who wrote about his homeland Ireland in novels including Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (5) |
| EQUUS | 1973 play by Peter Shaffer about a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses |
| MOORE | George -; Irish novelist whose works include A Mummer's Wife, Esther Waters and the memoir Confessions of a Young Man (5) |
| SPRIG | Some mistletoe for a young man (5) |
| SALAD | It's endless for a young man of course (5) |
| BUCKO | Term of address for a young man |
| BRAVO | Johnny ___ animated show executively produced by Hanna-Barbera which is about a young man who tries to get women to date him |
| HORSE | 2011 drama set in WWI about a young man's devotion to his foal Joey, War ___ |
| SALADCREAM | Howl catching a young man dressing (5,5) |
| FRUITSALAD | Ideal fare for a young man joining ecology party (5,5) |
| LIFE | 2012 drama about a young man trapped on a boat with a tiger: "___ of Pi" |
| ATHLETIC | "A young man, of a hale ____ figure, and a giant's strength" (describing Hugh in Barnaby Rudge) |
| BEVINBOY | During World War II, a young man selected by lot to work in a coal mine instead of performing normal military service (5,3) |
| OLIVER | Nicholas Hilliard's protege whose miniature A Young Man Seated Under a Tree includes the first painted depiction of a knot garden (6) |
| SQUIRE | From the Old French for "shield-bearer", a young man of noble birth who attended a knight originally, later a landed gentleman of old family (6) |
| COLT | A type of revolver for a young man |
