| SUPERBOY | The Man of Steel, as a young man |
| ARMORED | Covered in steel, as a tank |
| METTLE | Temperament of steel, as they say! |
| ARTIST | What completes the title of the James Joyce novel A Portrait of the ___ as a Young Man? (6) |
| MOOCOW | Kidspeak animal mentioned in the first line of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" |
| DEDALUS | Stephen of Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" |
| JOYCE | James Augustine Aloysius -; author of Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake (5) |
| PORTRAIT | Of a lady by Henry James or of the artist as a young man by James Joyce |
| PURPLERAIN | Portrait of The Artist as a young man? |
| APORTRAIT | James Joyce work, ... Of The Artist As A Young Man (1,8) |
| JUVENILIA | Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man etc ___ Joyce's first to see value in composition about oneself (9) |
| REAGENT | As a young man, George IV injected a chemical compound (7) |
| KRYPTON | The narrator said of Superman, "The infant of ... is now the Man of Steel!" |
| NYLON | Material promised to be "as strong as steel, as fine as the spider's web" at the 1939 World's Fair |
| BEARDLESS | As a young man in the East End, don't play so tough (9) |
| MOVEABLE | If you have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go it stays with you. for Paris is a _ feast": Ernest Hemingway (8) |
| GANGSOFNEWYORK | 2002 movie featuring Leonardo DiCaprio as a young man seeking revenge |
| BYZANTINETEEN | Emperor Justinian as a young man? |
| EROS | God often depicted as a young man |
| LION | Drama starring Dev Patel as a young man searching for his lost family in India (4) |
