| KINDERGARTEN | Doctor entering dark place where young play |
| AIR | 2023 film in which Damian Young plays Michael Jordan |
| EREBUS | That deep dark place where beer is brewed for us (6) |
| CAVE | Dark place where bats hang out |
| DAYNURSERY | Place where young children are kept for a number of hours where plants are reared (3,7) |
| NURSERY | Place where young trees and plants are grown for sale (7) |
| LAID | Put in place where young man is first inside |
| NEST | Place where young flyers might be at home? (4) |
| CAVEAT | Legal warning formed by a dark place where bats live + what the symbol @ means |
| MINERAL | Word, from "ore" and the name of a deep dark place where treasures are unearthed or found, for aventurine, cinnabar, hyacinth, peridot, quartz or other solid homogeneous inorganic substance from the m |
| AUSTRALIA | Place where young voters outnumber baby boomers for the first time and express concern about climate change. (9) |
| TALENT | "Everyone has ___. What's rare is the courage to follow [it] to the dark places where it leads": Erica Jong |
| NURSERIES | Places where young plants and trees are grown for sale or planting elsewhere (9) |
| ATDAGGERSDRAWN | When duels traditionally take place, with familiar cricket commentator and doctor entering prepared to fight (2,7,5) |
| TOMBOLA | Doctor entering saw, for instance, a gambling activity (7) |
| TIMBER | Log doctor entering bank (6) |
| NIMBLE | Sprightly doctor entering African river |
| NUMBEST | Least able to sense university doctor entering home |
| COMBO | Old doctor entering company group |
| GAMBOL | Frisk doctor entering prison (6) |
