| BOYHOOD | Early days of the young Robin |
| DICKYBIRD | What young Robin calls young Martin? (5-4) |
| STEPHANDORFF | World Trade Center, Blade and Cecil B. DeMented are movies in which this US actor has appeared; he also played the role of Stuart Sutcliffe in Backbeat, the 1994 film about the early days of The Beatl |
| MAPAI | Marxist-Zionist workers party in the early days of The State of Israel (Hebrew acronym) (5) |
| MAPAM | Marxist-Zionist workers party in the early days of The State of Israel (Hebrew acronym) (5) |
| BACKBEAT | 1994 drama about the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg (8) |
| PUTOUTMOREFLAGS | Evelyn Waugh novel set during the early days of the Second World War |
| DRAIN | Early days of the precipitation outlet |
| AVIATOR | The pilot of a plane, especially in the early days of flying (7) |
| NOELE | What was the first name of Ms Gordon, who played Meg in the early days of Crossroads? (5) |
| TIVOLI | In the early days of cinema, picture theatres around the world were named after this Copenhagen amus |
| SOCIALNETWORK | With "The," 2010 film about the early days of Facebook with a screenplay written by Aaron Sorkin : 2 |
| GABY | In the early days of Neighbours, Rachel Blakely was ___ Willis |
| SCHLIEFFEN | ___ Plan, German military strategy in the early days of World War I (10) |
| HOUR | Drama centring on the early days of Winston Churchill during World War II, Darkest ... (4) |
| PHONO | Lead-in to "graph," in the early days of audio recording |
| TIRES | In the early days of cars, what were white, later coloured with carbon black? (5) |
| INFANCY | Early days of city's wingers revealed by home supporter |
| ONSET | Early days of being addicted to television? (5) |
| AVIATRIX | A female pilot in early days of flying (8) |