| BEARDLESS | As a young man in the East End, don't play so tough (9) |
| EMIR | Big man in the East |
| COMEOFFIT | Unusual domino effect with no end - don't be ridiculous (4,3,2) |
| ITLL | ___ be okay in the end (Don't lose hope) |
| THECATCHERINTHERYE | Novel that ends "Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody" |
| JUVENILIA | Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man etc ___ Joyce's first to see value in composition about oneself (9) |
| ODDCOUPLE | It was a Broadway play and then a movie before becoming a popular sitcom, with The: 2 wds. |
| HOPSCOTCH | Child's play, so bound to be on the booze (9) |
| APORTRAIT | James Joyce work, ... Of The Artist As A Young Man (1,8) |
| JAILHOUSE | ___ Rock, 1957 film starring Elvis Presley as a young man sent to prison for manslaughter (9) |
| HANKAARON | MLB great who said, "Play so good they can't remember what color you were before the season started" |
| TROMBONES | They just play so must be borne by most |
| TOMSAWYER | Character swam off in play, then returned (3,6) |
| LOOSENSUP | Isn't so tough |
| ROMEO | Young man in the title of a Shakespeare play |
| 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) |
| CARAVAGGIO | An Italian artist who killed a young man in a brawl (10) |
| PALADIN | The knight is a young man in discomfort (7) |
| BASSANIO | Impoverished young man in 'The Merchant of Venice' (8) |
| MALADY | Young man in the grip of old maid's illness (6) |
