| CABAL | Call a boy a liar, and you'll start to form a clique (5) |
| TEACHER | "When a ______ calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble..." (Mark Twain) |
| ERIC | From the register I call a boy's name (4) |
| PINKPANTHERESS | "Boy's a Liar" singer |
| PRETENCE | Make believe you'll start performing at the centre (8) |
| VICKI | She always gives a boy a bit of a kiss (5) |
| EGGED | Urged to give a boy a bit of breakfast (5) |
| TRADE | With craft, making tear drops start to form (5) |
| RATED | Scolded, a teardrop starts to form (5) |
| INSET | At home to a clique, start farther from margin (5) |
| FAKES | Fall Out Boy "The Patron Saint of Liars and ___" |
| SWEET | We get in a clique that's charming and delightful (5) |
| BESET | To exist with a clique surrounded by the enemy (5) |
| CROWD | A crush, mob, multitude or throng of people or things closely pressed together; or, a clique or ingroup (5) |
| LIKED | Danny Cipriani says he wasn't - - - by a clique of England team-mates (5) |
| JILL | Historically, a generic name referring to a girl as opposed to "jack" for a boy; a female ferret; or, a series of pony books by Ruby Ferguson (4) |
| ONSET | Attack on a clique or faction (5) |
| PUTTI | Representations of a small boy, a cherub or cupid. (5) |
| BISON | Told to buy one's boy a big buffalo (5) |
| SETIN | Became established as a clique, being fashionable (3,2) |
