| BD | Sydney tennis whiz reached 1975 Australian Open men's quarter-finals as 17-year-old, initials (2) |
| BT | Aussie tennis bad boy reached Wimbledon quarter-finals as teenager, initials (2) |
| SELES | Yugoslav tennis whiz won 1990 French Open women's title at 16 (5) |
| ACER | Tennis whiz |
| CHANG | Michael ___, 17-year-old who won the French Open tennis tournament in 1989 (5) |
| KERR | Amelia ..., the New Zealander who, as a 17-year-old, scored a double-century and claimed five wickets in the same match. (4) |
| AGE | 17, to a 17 year old |
| NORTHANGERABBEY | 1803 Jane Austen novel, published in 1817, whose protagonist is the 17- year- old Catherine Morland (10,5) |
| EFFIBRIEST | 1895 novel by Theodor Fontane whose title character is the 17-year-old daughter of a German aristocrat |
| ENIGMA | The ____ of Kaspar Hauser is a Werner Herzog film about a 17-year old foundling in 19th-centrury Nuremberg |
| ALANSTRANG | Disturbed 17-year-old in 1973 Peter Shaffer stage play Equus (4,6) |
| SUBWAY | Fast-food company founded in Connecticut in 1965 by a 17-year-old college student and a nuclear physicist (6) |
| PICNICATHANGINGROCK | 1975 Australian mystery film based on a 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay (6,2,7,4) |
| ROGER | ..... Taylor, English tennis player who reached three Wimbledon men's singles quarter-finals (5) |
| ORLEANS | City on the Loire successfully claimed back from the English by the 17-year-old French peasant Joan of Arc and her small army during the Hundred Years' War (7) |
| IKEA | Company founded by 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad in 1943 |
| SASHA | 17-year-old daughter of Barack and Michelle |
| MINOR | 17-year-old, for example |
| PELE | 17-year-old sensation at the 1958 World Cup |
| MALALA | 17-year-old Peace Nobelist Yousafzai |
