| BEHAN | Brendan -, author of 1958 autobiographical novel Borstal Boy (5) |
| ROAST | Criticise reform inside of borstal (5) |
| STALK | Borstal kid about to follow prey (5) |
| PLAYUP | Highlight borstal boy is out of bed (4,2) |
| OUTPLAY | Get the better of fight knocking head off borstal boy (7) |
| BRENDAN | "Borstal Boy" author Behan |
| PLAYGOER | Borstal boy has a reputation for fighting locally with one of those attending the abbey (8) |
| SCUM | It starred Ray Winstone as a brutal Borstal boy (4) |
| ACHEBE | Chinua ___, author of 1958 novel Things Fall Apart (6) |
| ANNJELLICOE | Author of 1958 stage play The Sport of My Mad Mother (3,8) |
| DELANEY | Shelagh ?, author of 1958 stage play A Taste of Honey (7) |
| JELLICOE | Ann ___, author of 1958 stage play The Sport of My Mad Mother (8) |
| THROWSAWOBBLY | Wild borstal boy, swallowing double whisky, grabs hothead and has a tantrum (6,1,6) |
| HALL | Willis ?, author of 1958 stage play Disciplines of War, later renamed The Long and the Short and the |
| CAPOTE | Truman ?, author of 1958 novella Breakfast at Tiffany's (6) |
| ALBATROSS | Source of guilt as borstal is destroyed |
| BALDPATED | Perimeter of borstal adapted, unusually, without locks |
| GAMBLER | One playing around outside of borstal is risk-taker (7) |
| PUBS | More than one local in front of Borstal during discharge (4) |
| ALF | Boy in borstal, formerly |
