| MINORITY | Popular novice upstanding in my youth |
| INCONVENIENT | It's awkward for popular novice that is taken in by religious institution (12) |
| IDIOTIC | "I was pretty ____ in my youth" (Stephen Fry, in a 2024 interview) |
| WILDOATS | I was told to scatter these liberally in my youth (4,4) |
| KEEP | I disobeyed this sign in my youth - it was nothing to do with avoiding drugs! (4,3,3,5) |
| GRASS | I disobeyed this sign in my youth - it was nothing to do with avoiding drugs! (4,3,3,5) |
| OFFTHE | I disobeyed this sign in my youth - it was nothing to do with avoiding drugs! (4,3,3,5) |
| ERECT | Upstanding in noble rectitude (5) |
| FINIS | Evil, though upstanding in the end |
| HONORABLE | Decent nobleman is upstanding in the midst of depression (9) |
| BEUYS | Joseph, 20th Century German conceptual artist whose works include Memory Of My Youth In The Mountain |
| EELS | "Mistakes of My Youth" band |
| SINS | Neon Trees "___ of My Youth" |
| ASBESTOSIRECALL | Cherished mineral of my youth? |
| ANN | "The Boys of My Youth" writer Jo __ Beard |
| MATRIARCH | For her, is right demeanour to be upstanding in marriage? (9) |
| SIR | One's upstanding in front of king, as Winston Churchill was |
| LYING | Not upstanding in either sense of the word |
| NAOMI | In my opinion, an upstanding woman |
| BIPEDS | Upstanding characters are as patent in the county (6) |
