| LEGRANDMEAULNES | Alain-Fournier's only novel, about lost love and the mysterious world between childhood and adulthood |
| CCLARKE | Science fiction writer and host of the TV show Mysterious World (6,1,6) |
| ARTHUR | Science fiction writer and host of the TV show Mysterious World (6,1,6) |
| LYTTON | Victorian author's only novel, about abstainer (6) |
| EMAILING | Imagine novel about lost writing from surfing mecca? (8) |
| PRIMEVAL | Old viral poem about lost love |
| INDREAMS | 1963 Roy Orbison rock ballad about lost love |
| SIGNALLER | Salinger novel about lost but courteous driver? (9) |
| YOUTH | Stage of adolescence between childhood and maturity; juveniles collectively; or, the early days in the development of something (5) |
| NEMO | Captain of the submarine Nautilus in the Jules Verne novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1875) (4) |
| SIRFRANCISDRAKE | Elizabethan sea captain who undertook the second circumnavigation of the world between 1577 and 1580 (3,7,5) |
| TEEN | Person between childhood and adulthood |
| ADOLESCENT | Person between childhood and adulthood |
| YOUNG | Period between childhood and adult age |
| ANTA | Relating to those between childhood and adulthood |
| ADOLESCENCE | Stage between childhood and adulthood (11) |
| VERNE | Author of adventure novels including Five Weeks in a Balloon, Around the World in Eighty Days and The Mysterious Island (5) |
| ATLAS | It shows the world between covers to the one who held it up (5) |
| TWEEN | Person between young childhood and adolescence, normally between eight and thirteen years of age (5) |
| ADOLESCENTS | People between childhood & adulthood |
