| UNADULTERATED | Simple time perhaps for children and youth of the fifties |
| ZAPPONE | Who is the new Minister for Children and Youth Affairs? (7) |
| FLANAGAN | Who has replaced Frances Fitzgerald as Minister for Children and Youth Affairs? (8) |
| BASTER | More simple time saving kitchen utensil |
| TED | A tough youth of the 1950s and i960s (3) |
| DIETED | The German youth of the 1950s was faster |
| SAGES | Wise people in simple times |
| TEDDYBOY | Rebellious British youth of the 1950s (5,3) |
| ANCIENT | "____ times were the youth of the world" (Francis Bacon) |
| MAHY | Author of books for children and young people including A Lion in the Meadow, The Witch in the Cherry Tree and The Changeover (4) |
| DOM | Youth of the '60s upset a Benedictine priest (3) |
| FREUD | Anna ___, sixth child of Sigmund, the father of psychoanalysis; she founded the National Centre for Children and Families who run the Cheshire Without Abuse service from their base in Crewe (5) |
| SUSAN | Forename of the author of the Dark Is Rising sequence of novels for children and young people (5) |
| CLAN | From the Gaelic for "children" and Latin for "sprout", any one of the kinship groups among the Scots, each identified by an individual tartan (4) |
| LURIE | Pulitzer-winning professor who penned Don't Tell the Grown-ups, The War Between the Tates, books for children and also edited The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales (5) |
| TEDDYBOYS | Some U.K. youths of the '50s |
| MEADE | Author of novels/stories including many for children and young people such as Beyond the Blue Mountains and A World of Girls (5) |
| BLYTON | Author of The Christmas Book, numerous Christmas tales for children and the many classic Famous Five, Malory Towers and Secret Seven adventures (6) |
| NORTON | Author of The Borrowers novels for children and the books adapted into Bedknobs and Broomsticks (6) |
| PEYTON | Author of a number of books for children and young people, including Apple Won't Jump, Fly-by-Night, A Pattern of Roses, The Scruffy Pony as well as her classic Flambards novels that were adapted to s |
