- TEEN
- Over 12
- Adolescent
- Archie or Jughead
- Driver-ed taker, usually
- Driving-exam taker, usually
- Freshly
- Young adult
- Happy Days type
- Generation Y member
- Ump follower?
- Cause of gray hair?
- Member of the senior class
- Prom attendee
- Ager start
- Ager starter
- Arcade patron
- Cause of old age?
- High schooler
- Seven or nine ender
- Skateboard rider, usually
- Spice Girls fan
- Olivia Rodrigo or Billie Eilish
- Undergrad applicant, typically
- Snapchat user, often
- Twenty-something-to-be
- VSCO girl, typically
- fellow young person!"?
- Many a TikToker
- Many a Zoomer
- Aqua ___ Hunger Force
- Twilight fan, probably
- Twilight reader, probably
- Anybody featured in a high school yearbook, if you don't count teachers
- Bruno Mars fan, probably
- John Green book reader, likely
- Millennial, e.g.
- ___ Puzzlemaker Week
- ___ Vogue
- Sophomoric one?
- YA reader
- Barron Trump, e.g.
- Typical Insta user
- TikTok fan, likely
- TikTok user, likely
- TikTok dance participant
- Malt shop customer
- Sock hop goer
- Acne sufferer
- Pre-adult
- 12-to-20 gap-filler
- Typical mall rat
- MTV target
- New driver, often
- One with Bieber fever, probably
- SAT taker, maybe
- Emerging adult
- Any of the Ninja Turtles
- Certain minor
- Boston Public extra
- Buffy, for one
- Ager of parents?
- Romeo or Juliet, e.g.
- Juliet, for example
- Twixt 12 and 20
- Not-so-little kid
- ___ Angel (1959 hit)
- Many a freshman
- Typical driver's ed student
- Typical college freshman
- ___ idol
- Christopher Cool: ___ Agent (1960s juvenile series)
- Holden Caulfield, for one
- Typical "Belieber"
- What Malia Obama became during her White House stay
- Kind of drama
- One experiencing rapid growth, often
- TV's Leonardo, Rafael, Michelangelo, or Donatello, e.g.
- Quinceañera honoree, e.g.
- The world's youngest Nobel laureate was one at the time of awarding
- You can only be one for seven years
- College applicant, usually
- Dawson's Creek character, often
- Kind of angel or idol
- MTV viewer, most likely
- TV's Sabrina, for one
- Dawson's Creek type
- Kind of idol
- Last year's twelve-year-old
- Driving test taker, usually
- Major responsibility for a parent
- High schooler, usually
- Many an 'N Sync fan
- Dawson's Creek extra
- Algebra student, typically
- Groupie, usually
- MTV target viewer
- Grease extra
- That '70s Show extra
- Cause of some gray hair?
- MTV watcher, often
- Many a new driver
- Many a pop music fan
- Nancy Drew or King Tut
- New driver, usually
- One twixt 12 and 20
- Student driver, typically
- Doogie Howser was one
- Either of Blondie's kids, e.g.
- Minor
- Freshman, probably
- High school senior, normally
- High schooler, often
- Mall habitué
- Many an MTV viewer
- Student driver, usually
- Minor, maybe
- Promgoer
- Promgoer, usually
- Either of Blondie's kids
- Jughead, or any of the first names in the theme entries
- Mall frequenter
- Many a minor
- The comics' Luann or Jughead, e.g.
- Romeo or Juliet
- SAT taker, usually
- Either of Dagwood's kids
- Many a "High School Musical" viewer
- Many a Taylor Swift fan
- Many a Twitter twitterer
- Many a new voter
- Many a prom attendee
- Past twelve, going on twenty
- Slumber party attendee, usually
- Typical driver education student
- Hannah Montana, for one
- Many a texter
- Likely viewer of "The Hunger Games"
- Arcade patron, frequently
- Many a "Twilight" viewer
- New driver, typically
- Driver ed student, usually
- Degrassi or "Glee" extra
- Eagle Scout, usually
- Either of Dagwood's offspring, e.g.
- High school freshman, most likely
- Jeremy Duncan in "Zits," e.g.
- Tiger Beat reader
- ___ Wolf (MTV series based on a Michael J. Fox movie)
- 5SOS fan, probably
- Rookie reader
- 11 Down attendee
- New driver, perhaps
- Felicity type
- Suffix for 13 to 19
- Youth
- LeAnn Rimes is one
- Many a Britney Spears fan
- Summer temp, often
- Mall habitue
- Many an acne sufferer
- High schooler, probably
- MTV viewer, often
- Many a college applicant
- Parent's challenge
- High school subject?
- Mall denizen
- Minor party, perhaps?
- One may be hard to raise
- High school senior, usually
- The O.C. viewer, usually
- Many an idol worshiper
- Extra in many an iPod ad
- Many a Babe Ruth League participant
- Many a bio student
- One on a first date, probably
- Typical first date
- Happy Days extra
- Archie or Jughead, always
- Betty or Veronica, for more than 60 years
- Kind of angst
- Many a MySpace user
- Prom dancer
- Many a "One Tree Hill" character
- Member of many an idol's fan base
- Minor, usually
- Reader of Seventeen
- Charlie Brown never became one
- Suffix with four, six, seven and nine
- Former girls' magazine
- Many a texting whiz
- Music biz sensation, perhaps
- Eagle Scout, typically
- Summer intern, often
- Typical "Hunger Games" trilogy reader
- Typical "Twilight" fan
- One still maturing
- Adult, at one time
- After-school mall frequenter
- Typical Popstar! reader
- Word ladder, part 4
- Babysitter, often
- High schooler, typically
- Many a "Divergent" reader
- Mock election voter
- Glee extra
- The Hunger Games extra
- Many a "Hunger Games" fan
- Many a senior
- High school junior, usually
- Many a manga fan
- __ Vogue
- High-school kid
- Many a Snapchat user
- Many a gamer
- Video game rating
- Junior prom attendee
- Many a "Freaks and Geeks" character
- Stereotypical angst sufferer
- __ Beat: old fan mag
- High School Musical extra
- Many a "Buffy" character
- Many a "Twilight" character
- Suffix with ump-
- YA fiction reader
- Glee character, usually
- MTV's "__ Wolf"
- Many a character on HBO's "Euphoria"
- 44-Across, for one
- First-time biology student, usually
- Frosh, probably
- Many an Olympic gymnast
- What "T" stands for, in video game ratings
- __ Choice Awards
- Adult-to-be
- Suffix with nine- or ump-
- Betty or Veronica
- College freshman, often
- Many a YA hero
- Prom invitee
- MTV fan, often
- Saved by the Bell cast member
- Landon's werewolf, e.g.
- Sabrina, for one
- Buffy or Felicity
- Mall rat
- Backstreet Boys fan, usually
- Britney Spears fan
- Christina Aguilera fan
- MTV viewer
- Minor child
- Numerical ending
- Numerical suffix
- High-school student
- Many a mall rat
- Henry Aldrich, for one
- Driver's ed student, usually
- Mall rat, often
- MTV watcher
- New driver, maybe
- 36 Across attendee
- Kid older than 12
- Person who's not quite 20
- SAT taker
- First-time voter, perhaps
- Typical MTV viewer
- Person not quite 20
- Mock-election participant
- Olympic gymnast, often
- 10 Across attendee
- 13 Across member
- Typical new driver
- Typical promgoer
- Auto-school client, probably
- Harry Potter, for one
- Promgoer, probably
- Typical high-schooler
- With 52 Down, movie plot device
- Minor, often
- Typical 10th-grader
- Typical texter
- Usual SAT taker
- One not quite 20
- Person soon to be 20
- Typical "Hunger Games" fan
- Typical driving student
- Certain "Jeopardy!" tournament contestant
- Certain "Jeopardy!" tourney player
- Child not quite 20
- Traditional rebel
- Typical Archie Comics character
- 8 Down, when he hit #1 in '59
- Child older than 12
- Frequent texter
- Typical habitual texter
- Child between 12 and 20
- Former tot
- What no Little Leaguer can be
- Emerging consumer
- Many a first-time voter
- She's not quite 20
- Tenth grader, typically
- Certain young adult
- Common driving school client
- Older youngster
- Minor, quite possibly
- Mall rat, most likely
- Bar mitzvah boy, barely
- One with high car insurance rates
- Suffix with four, six, or seven, but not five
- Prefix used with age.
- Suffix for cardinal numbers.
- College freshman, typically
- One in MTV's target audience
- ___ People (popular magazine)
- High school soph, e.g.
- High schooler, e.g.
- Pediatrician's patient, perhaps
- SAT taker, e.g.
- Tiger Beat reader, most likely
- With 16-Across, popular rock star, perhaps
- Smells Like ___ Spirit (Nirvana's first hit)
- Cosmo Girl! reader
- Slumber party attendee, typically
- Trend follower, often
- Typical Elle Girl reader
- Young voter
- Ariel the mermaid, e.g.
- Person granted the vote by the Twenty-sixth Amendment
- Not Another ___ Movie
- Future duogenarian?
- Adolescent year.
- Age of swoon.
- ___ age.
- A certain age.
- Age of youth.
- Comic strip hero.
- Harold of comic strip fame.
- Harold of the comics.
- Suffix for certain numbers.
- A difficult age for parents.
- Termination for cardinal numbers.
- Between-age.
- Ending for some cardinal numbers.
- Ending of cardinal numeral.
- Suffix of cardinal numbers.
- Number suffix.
- Cardinal suffix.
- Ten and: Suffix.
- Ending on a cardinal number.
- Suffix forming cardinal numbers.
- Termination of certain numbers.
- Suffix on certain numbers.
- Suffix on numbers.
- Suffix with six and seven.
- Suffix with six or seven.
- And ten: Suffix.
- Suffix with four or nine.
- Of a certain age group.
- Suffix with six or seven or ump.
- Kind of age.
- Suffix with a number.
- Early age
- School age
- Age group
- Important age
- Injury, old style
- Burger buyer
- Carl Ed's comic-strip hero
- Carl Ed's comical hero
- Coed, often
- Ump chaser
- An age
- Certain age
- Harold of old comics
- Number ending
- Young age
- ___-ager
- Word after can or ump
- Worrisome age
- Youthful age
- Harold of comics
- Suffix with six, seven, etc.
- Between 12 and 20
- Owner of "Leapin' Lena"
- Suffix meaning ten
- Suffix with four, six, etc.
- Word with ager
- Adolescent, for short
- Comical Harold
- Juvenile
- Lillums Lovewell's beau
- Brooke Shields, for one
- Comics hero
- Ending for four, six, etc.
- Harold of the funnies
- Old comics character
- Suffix with six
- One of the ages
- Youngster
- Newman in 1940
- Six or seven follower
- This follows four or six
- Young person
- Cardinal-number ending
- Carl Ed's comical creation
- Kind of ager
- Youth 'twixt 12 and 20
- Cardinal-number suffix
- Carl Ed's hero
- Kett contemporary
- Mae Preston's boyfriend
- One under 20
- Rock lover
- Carl Ed comic character
- Octogenarian, once
- Comics' Harold
- Four or six follower
- ___ Angel, 1960 song
- Future adult
- Preadult person
- Preppy, e.g.
- Salad-days person
- Bobby-soxer
- It can follow six
- Mullins contemporary
- ___ Angel, 1959 song
- Age-mate of Donatello
- Huck Finn for one
- Ushering-in age
- Chelsea Clinton, e.g.
- Person 'twixt 12 and 20
- Girls' magazine
- YM competitor
- Youth magazine
- 1960 #1 hit "___ Angel"
- MTV's target viewer
- Miss ___ USA
- Rebellious one, maybe
- Selective Service registrant, agewise
- Beavis or Butt-head
- Popular youth magazine
- Summer job seeker, often
- 81-Down, often
- Tiger Beat alternative
- 90210 extra
- It follows four but not five
- Harold ___ (old comic strip)
- Scream extra
- It may follow four or six, but not five
- Magazine with dating tips
- Many a Boy Scout
- Suffix with nine, but not ten
- Middle-schooler, maybe
- One going off to college, maybe
- One taking driver's ed, perhaps
- Person nearing adulthood
- Archie or Veronica
- Comics target
- Freshman, usually
- One recently bar mitzvahed, e.g.
- Target MTV viewer
- 11-Down, frequently
- Bar mitzvah boy, for one
- Many a Nintendo player
- One Tree Hill target viewer
- ___ Angel (1960 #1 hit)
- Many a Facebook listee
- Many a Jessica Simpson fan
- New driver, frequently
- ___ Wolf, Michael J. Fox film
- Person under 20
- Typical Mad reader
- College freshman, usually
- First-time driver, often
- Freshman, most likely
- Almost any girl in "Gossip Girl"
- First-year college student, usually
- Many a bar mitzvah attendee
- Many a driver's ed student
- Wii user, maybe
- 12-20 filler?
- One who's not yet a twentysomething
- Typical Justin Bieber fan
- The ___ Commandments (1958 hit)
- Many a "Twilight" fan
- Olympic female gymnast, typically
- 23-Across's target reader
- Archie, Betty or Veronica
- Bar mitzvah, e.g.
- First-time voter, often
- Follower of four or six, but not five
- Fox's ___ Choice Awards
- Many an Instagram user
- Member of Generation Z
- ___ Vogue magazine
- 27-Across taker, typically
- Many a Generation Z member, now
- Mark Zuckerberg when founding Facebook, e.g.
- This puzzle's constructor, for one
- Typical Snapchatter
- Pre-twentysomething
- Digital native, often
- Fake ID user, often
- Juliet Capulet or Holden Caulfield, agewise
- Many a TikTok user
- Many a character in Ann M. Martin's "The Baby-Sitters Club"
- Someone who is not yet 20
- Typical summer intern
- One starting college, typically
- Typical reader of John Green novels
- ___ Choice Awards
- LeBron James in his N.B.A. debut, e.g.
- Nirvana's "Smells Like ___ Spirit"
- Quinceañera celebrant, e.g.
- Smells Like ___ Spirit (Nirvana song)
- Follower of four or six but not three or five
- Many a Disney Channel star
- Many a driver's ed enrollee
- Many a high school student
- King Tut, during most of his reign
- Louis Braille, when he invented Braille
- Library section
- Many a babysitter
- Many a camp counselor
- Mallgoer
- One past twelve?
- Promgoer, e.g.
- Rock hound?
- '_____ Wolf' ('85 film)
- Not quite adult
- YA fiction reader, usually
- 'YM' reader
- With 120-Down alternative to 'YM', or 'Sassy'
- 11th grader, e.g.
- One nearing adulthood
- 12th grader, e.g.
- Driving exam taker, often
- High-school grad, e.g.
- Justin Bieber fan, often
- With 47-Across, swooned-over sort
- Best Kissers in the World "Miss ___ USA"
- Mark Dinning "___ Angel"
- Olivia Rodrigo, for one
- Chelsea, until February 2000
- High school or college freshman, usually
- Buffy or Willow
- ___ Mom
- Britney Spears fan, most likely
- Kind of comedy
- Any of the four main characters of "Reservation Dogs"
- Ending with four or six, but not five
- Many a student driver
- Character often played by an adult
- Eighth-grade graduate, typically
- Many a Y.A. protagonist
- Meg, Jo, or Beth, at the start of "Little Women"
- Prom attendee, typically
- West Side Story extra
- Freddy Krueger victim
- Hop-goer
- One preparing for the prom
- Pubic heir?
- Suffix for four
- Britney's fan
- Britney Spears fan, typically
- What Shirley Temple was in the '40s
- Beginning driver, usually
- One between 12 and 20
- ___ Wolf Too (1987)
- Older child, perhaps
- One past 12
- Four, six or seven attachment
- Freddy Adu, for one
- Mandy Moore, for one
- One of the "Beverly Hills 90210" crowd
- Arcade patron, perhaps
- Hop-goer of old
- Parent's challenge, perhaps
- High school senior, typically
- High school soph, most likely
- Britney Spears fan, often
- McDonald's part-timer, often
- Suffix with four or six, but not five
- One driving a car with two brakes, often
- Many a Jonas Brothers fan
- High-school pupil
- Past 12 but not 20
- Person between 12 and 20
- Bar mitzvah honoree
- Practically any high schooler
- Any high schooler
- Ball ___ hammer
- Minor soon to reach adulthood
- Parent's "ager"?
- Suffix for some numbers
- Typical high school student
- Near-adult
- Bat mitzvah attendee
- Many a Snapchatter
- Many a freshman, age-wise
- Archie or Veronica, always
- New high school graduate, usually
- One may be allowed to smoke but not drink
- Quinceanera celebrant, age-wise
- Twentysomething's little sibling, maybe
- Certain Snapchatter
- Future twentysomething
- Learner's permit holder, often
- Malala Yousafzai was one when she won a Nobel Prize
- Malia Obama, during her father's second term
- One may spend hours on TikTok
- Typical TikTok user
- Typical student driver
- Typical young adult novel reader
- Bat mitzvah girl, maybe
- Many a B-Mitzvah attendee
- Many a prom queen, age-wise
- Many an '80s kid, in 2000
- Typical PSAT taker
- Typical prom attendee
- Bar mitzvah boy, just barely
- Gen Zer, perhaps, in 2024
- Many a "Glee" character, agewise
- Many a high schooler
- Common age
- Nancy Drew <P>e.g.
- See 32 Down
- ____ canteen
- Six or sub follower
- Bar Mitzvah boy
- Steve Urkel e.g.
- Ending at nine
- Joan of Arc, e.g.
- Six follower
- Ump ending
- Bar mitzvah attendee, certainly
- ___ Wolf Too
- Bar Mitzvah boy, e.g.
- With 56 Down, 1985 scary young 'un
- Parent's challenge, sometimes
- Suffix with 4 or 6, but not 5
- Parent's challenge, stereotypically
- Prep school youth, usually
- Referring to any of seven numbers
- Eagle Scout, often
- Young voter, perhaps
- Suffix with four, but not five
- Coming-of-age movie subject, perhaps
- One on a first date, perhaps
- Minor party?
- Soon-to-be adult
- Ending 'twixt 12 and 20
- Youngest possible voter
- Youth group participant
- Driving-test taker, typically
- Freshman, very often
- High schooler, most likely
- Many a McJob holder
- Many a rave-goer
- Archie or Jughead, since 1941
- Jeremy of "Zits," e.g.
- Many a college freshman
- Many a summer job holder
- Any Ninja Turtle
- Archie or Jughead, perpetually
- LeBron James, as a rookie
- Many a summer temp
- McJob trainee, often
- Typical Girls' Life reader
- Fake ID user, commonly
- High school freshman, usually
- Many a "Trinkets" character, age-wise
- Prom attendee, usually
- Typical learner's permit holder
- ___ Beach Movie (Disney movie)
- Many a "Riverdale" character
- Word before "angst" or "Titans"
- you're telling me a cis ___ built this chapel? (@RileyJohnSavage tweet)
- 17-year-old, for example
- Many a "Euphoria" character
- Many a "First Kill" character, age-wise
- Many a "Never Have I Ever" character
- Many a college applicant, age-wise
- Ms. Marvel, age-wise
- Suffix for "four," but not "three" or "five"
- Word before "angst" or "Vogue"
- ___ angst
- ___ drama ("Skins" genre)
- 45-Across attendee
- High-schooler, age-wise
- Many a high schooler, age-wise
- High school student, age-wise
- Katniss Everdeen, age-wise
- Person between the ages of 12 and 20
- Mall crawler
- Learner's permittee, maybe
- Short adolescent
- Sub or ump follower
- Idol worshiper, maybe
- Jughead is one
- Harry Potter, e.g.
- Valley Girl extra
- Former Tiger Beat rival
- Rating for the Guitar Hero games
- Many a Model U.N. participant
- Typical AP class student
- Neon's atomic number
- _____ People (magazine launched by Time 1/9/98)
- Britney Spears fan, probably
- Mall rat, maybe
- Boy band fan, typically
- Many a fake ID user
- Typical Abercrombie & Fitch customer
- Typical Hollister Co. customer
- Many an Abercrombie & Fitch shopper
- New voter, often
- Typical college applicant
- Many an Urban Outfitters shopper
- Octogenarian, in 1946
- Typical Aeropostale shopper
- A minor
- Babysitter, frequently
- Freshman, typically
- Student driver, often
- Rebellious one, often
- Many a singer on "Kidz Bop"
- Participant in a "Jeopardy!" tournament
- Many a TikTok devotee
- Many a college starter
- Many a first-time dater
- New driver, most likely
- Typical freshman
- Many an SAT taker