Referring Clues

• MTV's target viewer
• Adolescent
• High schooler
• 1960 #1 hit "___ Angel"
• "Happy Days" type
• Rebellious one, maybe
• Selective Service registrant, agewise
• Minor, maybe
• Miss ___ USA
• Acne sufferer, usually
• Tiger Beat reader
• Summer job seeker, often
• Popular youth magazine
• Beavis or Butt-head
• 81-Down, often
• Adult-to-be
• Freshman, probably
• Bar mitzvah boy, barely
• Archie or Jughead
• Student driver, most likely
• It follows four but not five
• "90210" extra
• New driver, maybe
• It may follow four or six, but not five
• "Scream" extra
• Suffix with nine, but not ten
• Magazine with dating tips
• New driver, often
• Many a Boy Scout
• High-schooler
• "Harold ___" (old comic strip)
• Romeo or Juliet
• One 'twixt 12 and 20
• One taking driver's ed, perhaps
• One going off to college, maybe
• Numerical suffix
• Many an MTV viewer
• Middle-schooler, maybe
• One recently bar mitzvahed, e.g.
• Comics target
• Student driver, usually
• Freshman, usually
• Archie or Veronica
• Minor
• Bar mitzvah boy, for one
• New driver, usually
• 11-Down, frequently
• Many a Nintendo player
• Many a Jessica Simpson fan
• New driver, frequently
• "___ Angel" (1960 #1 hit)
• New driver, typically
• Many a Facebook listee
• "One Tree Hill" target viewer
• "___ Wolf," Michael J. Fox film
• Typical Mad reader
• Person under 20
• College freshman, usually
• First-time driver, often
• Freshman, most likely
• Almost any girl in "Gossip Girl"
• First-year college student, usually
• Many a driver's ed student
• Prom attendee
• Major responsibility for a parent
• Driving test taker, usually
• Last year's twelve-year-old
• Many an 'N Sync fan
• High schooler, usually
• "Boston Public" extra
• Kind of angel or idol
• MTV target viewer
• Groupie, usually
• "Dawson's Creek" extra
• Algebra student, typically
• MTV viewer, most likely
• Many a pop music fan
• Many a new driver
• MTV watcher, often
• Cause of some gray hair?
• "That '70s Show" extra
• Student driver, typically
• Nancy Drew or King Tut
• One twixt 12 and 20
• "Grease" extra
• Cause of gray hair?
• Either of Blondie's kids, e.g.
• Doogie Howser was one
• High school senior, normally
• High schooler, often
• Young adult
• Promgoer
• Mall habitué
• Ump follower?
• Kind of idol
• Ager of parents?
• Promgoer, usually
• Mall frequenter
• The comics' Luann or Jughead, e.g.
• Many a minor
• Either of Blondie's kids
• Jughead, or any of the first names in the theme entries
• Many a Twitter twitterer
• Many a Taylor Swift fan
• Many a new voter
• SAT taker, usually
• One in MTV's target audience
• High schooler, e.g.
• Prom dancer
• Member of many an idol's fan base
• Many a bar mitzvah attendee
• Suffix with four, six, seven and nine
• With 16-Across, popular rock star, perhaps
• SAT taker, e.g.
• Tiger Beat reader, most likely
• High school soph, e.g.
• Pediatrician's patient, perhaps
• Typical Elle Girl reader
• Slumber party attendee, typically
• Trend follower, often
• Young voter
• "Smells Like ___ Spirit" (Nirvana's first hit)
• Cosmo Girl! reader
• Many a college applicant
• Youth
• Eagle Scout, typically
• Person granted the vote by the Twenty-sixth Amendment
• Ariel the mermaid, e.g.
• "Not Another ___ Movie"
• Future duogenarian?
• Wii user, maybe
• Tiger Beat alternative
• Many a "High School Musical" viewer
• Reader of Seventeen
• Many a "One Tree Hill" character
• Minor, usually
• Many a MySpace user
• Kind of angst
• Betty or Veronica, for more than 60 years
• Archie or Jughead, always
• "Happy Days" extra
• One on a first date, probably
• Many a Babe Ruth League participant
• Extra in many an iPod ad
• Many a bio student
• Typical first date
• Parent's challenge
• High school senior, usually
• "The O.C." viewer, usually
• Many an idol worshiper
• Minor party, perhaps?
• One may be hard to raise
• High school subject?
• Mall denizen
• High-schooler, usually
• Kid older than 12
• Numerical ending
• 36 Across attendee
• SAT taker
• Person who's not quite 20
• First-time voter, perhaps
• Typical mall rat
• Typical MTV viewer
• High-school student
• Person not quite 20
• Driving-school customer
• MTV watcher
• McDonald's part-timer, often
• Suffix with four or six, but not five
• Britney Spears fan, often
• Summer intern, often
• One with high car insurance rates
• Ump chaser?
• High school senior, typically
• Suffix for "four"
• High school soph, most likely
• "___ Angel" (1959 song)
• Arcade patron
• Mall rat
• One between 12 and 20
• "High School Musical" extra
• Coming-of-age movie subject, perhaps
• It follows "four" but not "five"
• New driver, perhaps
• Eagle Scout, often
• Young voter, perhaps
• Parent's challenge, stereotypically
• Suffix for four
• Prep school youth, usually
• Referring to any of seven numbers
• Suffix with 4 or 6, but not 5
• Parent's challenge, sometimes
• Bobby-soxer
• Minor party?
• Bar mitzvah boy, just barely
• 13 Across member
• Typical new driver
• Certain age
• Soon-to-be adult
• Pre-adult
• 12-20 filler?
• Many a Jonas Brothers fan
• Slumber party attendee, usually
• Either of Dagwood's kids
• Typical promgoer
• Charlie Brown never became one
• Past twelve, going on twenty
• Typical driver education student
• Many a prom attendee
• Romeo or Juliet, e.g.
• 10 Across attendee
• Holden Caulfield, for one
• Music biz sensation, perhaps
• Promgoer, probably
• Suffix with four, but not five
• One driving a car with two brakes, often
• Many a texting whiz
• Former girls' magazine
• Typical high-schooler
• One who's not yet a twentysomething
• Typical Justin Bieber fan
• Hannah Montana for one
• Suffix for "four"
• "___ Angel" (1959 song)
• Olympic gymnast, often
• Typical Facebook listee
• One on a first date, perhaps
• Bar mitzvah attendee, certainly
• Hannah Montana, for one
• Typical Hollister Co. customer
• High school student
• With 14 Across, adolescent
• With 52 Down, movie plot device
• College freshman, typically
• Not-so-little kid
• One past twelve?
• Harry Potter, for one
• Former Tiger Beat rival
• Auto-school client, probably
• Many a texter
• Typical driver's ed student
• Baby sitter, often
• Prom attender
• Prom attender
• Prom participant
• Young person
• 3-Down sufferer, usually
• 33-Across, often
• Prom attendee, often
• High school attendee
• Juvenile
• 12th grader, e.g.
• One nearing adulthood
• 11th grader, e.g.
• 'YM' reader
• With 120-Down alternative to 'YM' , or 'Sassy'
• Typical "Twilight" fan
• Typical "Hunger Games" trilogy reader
• Many a "Twilight" fan
• Sophomoric one?
• Minor, often
• Typical texter
• Likely viewer of "The Hunger Games"
• "Twilight" enthusiast, often
• Person 'twixt 12 and 20
• "The ___ Commandments" (1958 hit)
• Mall goer
• Preadult
• Typical 10th-grader
• ______ Wolf, 1985 Fox movie
• Usual SAT taker
• Olympic female gymnast, typically
• Young one
• 23-Across's target reader
• Typical high schooler
• Arcade patron, frequently
• Many a "Twilight" viewer
• Huge fan of One Direction, e.g. (um, obvs, they r a.ma.zing)
• One still maturing
• Acne sufferer
• Twix 12 and 20
• Youth group participant
• Youngest possible voter
• High schooler, typically
• Driver ed student, usually
• Word ladder, part 4
• Past 12 but not 20
• Archie, Betty or Veronica
• "West Side Story" extra
• High-school grad, e.g.
• Many a freshman
• Typical Popstar! reader
• Many an Abercrombie & Fitch shopper
• Driving exam taker, often
• After-school mall frequenter
• Ending 'twixt 12 and 20
• Landon's werewolf, e.g.
• Adult, at one time
• Justin Bieber fan, often
• Person between 12 and 20
• "___ Angel"
• ___ Vogue
• Babysitter, often
• Follower of four or six, but not five
• First-time voter, often
• With 47-Across, swooned-over sort
• High-school pupil
• Bar mitzvah, e.g.
• Fox's ___ Choice Awards
• Bar mitzvah boy
• Many a camp counselor
• Many a "Divergent" reader
• Traditional rebel
• Typical Archie Comics character
• Driving-test taker, typically
• Many a Snapchat user
• 13-19
• Mock election voter
• ___ idol
• Child not quite 20
• Many a "Hunger Games" fan
• Many an Instagram user
• ___ Vogue magazine
• Member of Generation Z
• Child older than 12
• Bar mitzvah honoree
• 8 Down, when he hit #1 in '59
• "Glee" extra
• Many a McJob holder
• High schooler, most likely
• Many a senior
• "The Hunger Games" extra
• Practically any high schooler
• Many an Olympic gymnast
• Many a summer job holder
• Prom goer
• Learner's permit holder, often
• Jayvee, often
• Ariana grande fan
• Date film target
• High school junior, usually
• One of the "Beverly Hills 90210" crowd
• 27-Across taker, typically
• Mock-election participant
• Many a manga fan
• Many a first-time voter
• People aged 13 to 19
• Parent's "ager"?
• College applicant, usually
• Typical high school student
• Minor soon to reach adulthood
• Ball ___ hammer
• Typical Snapchatter
• This puzzle's constructor, for one
• Mark Zuckerberg when founding Facebook, e.g.
• Any high schooler
• One under 20
• Archie or Jughead, since 1941
• Suffix for some numbers
• Many a Generation Z member, now
• Any of the Ninja Turtles
• High-schooler, e.g.
• Many a college freshman
• Typical college freshman
• Prom personage
• MTV viewer
• Bopper
• Mall habitue
• Youngster
• New driver
• Older adolescent
• Arcade patron, perhaps
• Person aged between 12 and 20
• Aged 16 or 17, for example
• Person between 12 and 20 years old
• Demographics target, maybe
• Contestant in some "Jeopardy!" tournaments
• First-time pot smoker, maybe
• "Jeopardy!" tournament participant, sometimes
• Like some pregnancies
• "Aqua ___ Hunger Force"
• Kid that can have a cellphone [S]
• Hop-goer
• Many a rave-goer
• Best Kissers in the World "Miss ___ USA"
• Mark Dinning "___ Angel"
• Donovan "___ Angel"
• Target consumer for pop, perhaps
• Youngster over twelve
• Nirvana "Smells Like ___ Spirit"
• Young Treherne appearing regularly
• Young person regularly reading The Beano
• Octogenarian, in 1946
• Adolescent right to leave wooden utensils
• Typical Aeropostale shopper
• Many a driver's ed pupil
• Adolescent (informal)
• Malt shop customer
• Freshman, very often
• One past 12
• "___ Angel" (1959 hit)
• Typical "Belieber"
• 13-19 year-old
• Youngster's finishes counting towards score
• Adolescent, then adult-to-be
• Peg's new adolescent
• Young person getting 10 out of 10
• Youth getting through cigarette ends
• LeBron James, as a rookie
• Participant in the Hunger Games, generally
• Four follower
• Student driver, often
• "Belieber," most likely
• Typical habitual texter
• "Miss ___ USA" Best Kissers in the World
• Frequent texter
• College freshman, often
• High-school kid
• "___ Wolf" (2011-2017 MTV show)
• Typical prom-goer
• Pre-twentysomething
• Archie or Jughead, perpetually
• Alexander or Cookie Bumstead
• Jeremy of "Zits," e.g.
• McJob trainee, often
• Many a gamer
• Bobbysoxer
• Adolescent involved in chaste encounter
• MTV watcher, e.g.
• Video game rating
• 11th grader
• A minor
• Neon's atomic number
• Young driver
• Near-adult
• Bar mitzvah boy, e.g.
• Cardinal number suffix
• Typical Girls' Life reader
• Any Ninja Turtle
• Many a summer temp
• High school freshman, usually
• Typical summer intern
• Many a character in Ann M. Martin's "The Baby-Sitters Club"
• Many a freshman, age-wise
• Many a mall rat
• Mall rat, usually
• Prom attendee, usually
• Bat mitzvah attendee
• Beginning driver, usually
• Someone who is not yet 20
• Digital native, often
• Fake ID user, often
• Juliet Capulet or Holden Caulfield, agewise
• Junior prom attendee
• ___ Beat: old fan mag
• Many a Snapchatter
• Typical learner's permit holder
• Fake ID user, commonly
• Child between 12 and 20
• Many a "Freaks and Geeks" character
• Older youngster
• Stereotypical angst sufferer
• Many a TikTok user
• Many a "Trinkets" character, age-wise
• Typical reader of John Green novels
• Many a "Buffy" character
• Suffix with ump-
• Many a middle schooler
• Many a "Twilight" character
• Many a "Riverdale" character
• "___ Witch"
• Future adult
• "Soul Train" viewer
• Former tot
• Word before "angst" or "Titans"
• Archie or Veronica, always
• New high school graduate, usually
• One starting college, typically
• Ending with four or six, but not three or five
• Nirvana’s “Smells Like ___ Spirit”
• Bubblegummer
• Twentysomething's little sibling, maybe
• What no Little Leaguer can be
• "___ Titans"
• Youthful person
• ___ Choice Awards
• "___ Beach Movie" (Disney movie)
• Quinceanera celebrant, age-wise
• One may be allowed to smoke but not drink
• Malia Obama, during her father's second term
• Typical young adult novel reader
• Future twentysomething
• Malala Yousafzai was one when she won a Nobel Prize
• Many a character on HBO's "Euphoria"
• Typical student driver
• Quinceañera celebrant, e.g.
• Tenth grader, typically
• LeBron James in his N.B.A. debut, e.g.
• MTV's "___ Wolf"
• Many a TikToker
• Nirvana's "Smells Like ___ Spirit"
• "Glee" character, usually
• YA fiction reader, usually
• Suffix for "four," but not "three" or "five"
• "you're telling me a cis ___ built this chapel?" (@RileyJohnSavage tweet)
• Person into gaming, typically
• Many a "Euphoria" character
• ___ drama ("Skins" genre)
• Many a "Never Have I Ever" character
• First-time biology student, usually
• Many a college applicant, age-wise
• Many a high school student
• "Smells Like ___ Spirit" (Nirvana song)
• Many a driver's ed enrollee
• ___ angst
• Follower of four or six but not three or five
• Word before "angst" or "Vogue"
• Ms. Marvel, age-wise
• 44-Across, for one
• Many a "First Kill" character, age-wise
• 17-year-old, for example
• Many a Disney Channel star
• What "T" stands for, in video game ratings
• Arcade habitue
• Suffix with nine- or ump-
• It comes after nine but not after ten
• Many an Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics
• Many a character in YA fiction
• Typical prom attendee
• Soph, probably
• Many a "Paper Girls" character, age-wise
• 13- to 19-year-old
• Frosh, probably
• 45-Across attendee
• Many a high schooler, age-wise
• King Tut, during most of his reign
• High-schooler, age-wise
• Any 13-year-old
• Target of Y.A. fiction
• Library section
• Many a Billie Eilish fan
• High school student, age-wise
• Betty or Veronica
• Many a YA hero
• Typical 11th grader
• Katniss Everdeen, age-wise
• One aged 13-19
• Many a babysitter
• Prom invitee
• Person between the ages of 12 and 20
• Many a YA fiction fan
• Prom goer, usually
• Mary Shelley, age-wise, when she wrote "Frankenstein"
• Age of a typical quinceanera guest
• Many a "Heartbreak High" character, age-wise
• Anyone between 12 and 20
• Many a Disney Channel star, age-wise
• Prom attendee, typically
• Cady Heron, age-wise
• "T," in video game ratings
• Typical high school student ... like this puzzle's constructor!
• Miss ___ USA (beauty pageant)
• Typical college applicant
• One past 12?
• Target reader of the "Twilight" series
• See 95-Down
• Stereotypical eye-roller
• Ump's following?
• Quinceañera celebrant, e.g.
• Romeo or Juliet, notably
• Many a promgoer
• One subject to a curfew, maybe
• Gukesh Dommaraju, upon becoming world chess champion in 2024