| OBSTRUCTS | Old boy almost impressed a paragon going around blocks (9) |
| OBLIVION | Old boy almost furious about forgetfulness (8) |
| BADBLOOD | Unruly old boy almost shot in fit of anger (3,5) |
| RESTSON | Hangs around blocks, like a ceiling does (5,2,5) |
| WALLS | Hangs around blocks, like a ceiling does (5,2,5) |
| STREETS | They run around blocks |
| INEBRIATE | One criminal teen protecting very naughty boy, almost drunk (9) |
| PRESSGANG | They impressed a newspaper company (5,4) |
| SECATEURS | A paragon without regret champions northbound cutters (9) |
| OBLIGATION | A boy almost toiling mistakenly as a duty (10) |
| DOUGLAS | Boy almost ready to meet girl? Almost (7) |
| COLOMBO | Pass by old motorway with boy, almost in capital city (7) |
| STAMPEDE | The flight impressed a quarter (8) |
| SHANGHAIED | Impressed a sailor without his knowing! (10) |
| GRAVEN | Deeply impressed a kind of image |
| LARGELY | Charles's painter impressed a royal German mostly (7) |
| IMPRESARIO | One wild primrose has impressed a theatre producer |
| GEM | Word, from "bud", hence a term for "budding", for a jewel; one regarded as a paragon or treasure; an emerald or other jewel-like hummingbird; or, old type, smaller than diamond (3) |
| OUROBOROS | Upper-class cheat, 7 repeatedly, not quite a paragon, a self-absorbed 23 (9) |
| PALADIN | What a noise from a friend! A paragon of knighthood, too! |
