| STINGY | Gordon Sumner first youth to be mean (6) |
| LADYCHATTERLEY | Boy - first youth - to talk idly at field with gamekeeper's lover (4,10) |
| INTEND | Trendy to incline to be mean (6) |
| TREATY | Agreement to take care of first youth (6) |
| FEISTY | Spirited female with energy ? first youth leader (6) |
| OTHERS | "Some ... I've seen; Might never be mean; Might never be cross or try to be boss; But they wouldn't do," sang Doris Day in It Had To Be You |
| LADDIE | Scots youth to tell stories about a clergyman (6) |
| KNIGHT | A boy, servant or youth to the Anglo-Saxons, but in medieval times, a warrior or man of distinguished military rank (6) |
| SCRIMP | Initially, singeing to make hair curl, so be mean! (6) |
| DENOTE | Could be mean about Eton education (6) |
| STREET | One might be mean or cross |
| PRETTYPLEASE | Pleading, flattering request to be mean-spirited about writing by a muse? (6,6) |
| NORM | Scottish man rises, claiming right to be mean (4) |
| AVERAGE | State time lived to be mean (7) |
| NOTABLE | Well-known to be mean with furniture (7) |
| RAP | A kind of song to be mean about? (3) |
| NASTY | But the North stay disruptive just to be mean. (5) |
| NAMECHECK | Public listing of someone turned out to be mean, rebuke followed (9) |
| AVER | Claim it's true it takes age to be mean (4) |
| LOSEHEART | Become discouraged at how Megan got to be mean? (4,5) |
