| BEPREPARED | READY MAXIM FOR BOY SCOUTS |
| MOTTO | "Be Prepared," for Boy Scouts |
| TROOPS | In retrospect, there's nothing in completive games for boy-scout groups (6) |
| GUNGE | Sticky substance Maxim for example recalled |
| GNOME | Maxim for an international banker |
| ADAGE | Maxim for presentday generation (5) |
| PRINCIPAL | Sounds like a guiding maxim for the head (9) |
| LADMAG | Maxim, for example: 2 wds. |
| SEESAW | Observe the maxim for an unstable board (6) |
| LIFEBEGINSAT | Ruin of Italy offering best maxim for the more mature (4,6,2,5) |
| COPINGSAW | Maxim for holding one's own hand tool? (6,3) |
| SAYINGS | Maxims, for example, in Gilbert and Sullivan initially (7) |
| HACKSAWS | One local journalist associated with maxims for cutting types that do damage (8) |
| AWARD | Tony, for example, for boy off Broadway (5) |
| SVEN | Boy's name from the Old Norse for "boy" |
| POTTER | Soft fur for boy in school for spells |
| NOUGHT | Purchased note for boy for nothing (6) |
| MAIDEN | Sharing its ancient root with Gaelic for "boy, servant, son", a word for a youngster of either sex originally, later a girl or unmarried woman; a clothes-horse; a racehorse without a victory; a washin |
| ATA | Doubled cheer for boy? |
| ATTA | Lead-in for "boy!" or "girl!" |
