| FISHBURNE | This actor was only fourteen years old when he won a role in Apocalypse Now - he was seventeen by th |
| YODA | Star Wars character who is 900 years old when he dies |
| MENDELSSOHN | He was 17 when he composed his overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, Felix ... |
| TRUEGRIT | Western novel narrated by a fourteen-year-old girl |
| NAT | Bryce Harper when he won a 2015 M.V.P. award, e.g. |
| LAURENCE | ____ Fishburne, US actor known for his roles in Apocalypse Now and The Matrix films (8) |
| DENNISHOPPER | US actor best known for his roles in Apocalypse Now and Easy Rider (6,6) |
| ANNEOFAUSTRIA | Princess who married Louis XIII in 1615 when they were both 14 years old |
| CADETTE | Girl Scout who's 12 to 14 years old |
| HART | A male deer, especially one over five years old when the crown antler begins to appear (4) |
| COOL | Slang word for good introduced in black America in the Thirties; all teenagers wanted to be it by th |
| BRIGHTLY | Cleverly reconstructed by th'girl (8) |
| WAAF | Women joined the men, though not as pilots, in this branch of the British flying arm, approved by th |
| SOFT | "When I was seventeen; It was a very good year; It was a very good year for small town girls; And .. |
| ERICSTOLTZ | This actor was famously replaced by Michael J Fox in the role of Marty McFly in Back to the Future (4,6) |
| ASHE | He was still a lieutenant in the US army in the year when he won both the US amateur title and the U |
| BIB | Protective cloth worn by a one-year-old when eating |
| MICHAELCHANG | American tennis player who became the youngest male player to win a Grand Slam singles title when he won the French Open in 1989 |
| SAMPRAS | Tennis player Pete ___ won his first Grand Slam when he won the U.S. Open in 1990. |
| UPTON | Who was the mental conditioning coach for D. Gukesh when he won the World Chess Championship in 2024? (5) |