Salad days (5 letters)

{ Answer }

TEENS

{ Related Clues }

Adolescents
Youth
Acne age
Acne time
Adults-in-training
Age group
Awakening period
Babysitters, typically
Certain years
Cold forecast
Cold temps
Difficult age
Difficult years
Frigid temps
High schoolers
H.S. students
New voters
Tense anagram
Young people
Youthful years
After-12 period
Chief buyers of albums
Coming-of-age period
The Hardy Boys, e.g.
Most mall rats
New voters, often
Oft-rebellious group
Period of rapid growth
Rebellious years, often
SAT takers, e.g.
Some of the Brady bunch
Some salad days
Tense time for many
Troubled times for many
"The Wonder Years" years
First-time drivers, often
Most driver's ed students
Much of the Disney Channel's demographic
Period 'twixt 12 and 20
When the Dada movement began
Years between 12 and 20
Majority of a crowd at a Jonas Brothers concert
Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, e.g.

{ Tags }

adolescents, age, cold, days, difficult, group, high, many, new, period, salad, schoolers, some, students, teens, temps, time, years, young, youthful, 12

{ Notes }

The answer TEENS is seen frequently, appearing about once every 120 puzzles.

{ Definition }

TEENS as a noun:

1. the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20

2. all the numbers that end in -teen

TEEN as a noun:

1. (adolescent, stripling, teenager, teen) = a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity