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Irritable youth, initially under examination (5)

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testy

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'irritable' is the definition.
('testy' can be a synonym of 'irritable')

'youth initially under examination' is the wordplay.
'youth initially' becomes 'y' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'under' says to put letters next to each other.
'examination' becomes 'test' ('test' can be a synonym of 'examination').
'y' put after 'test' is 'TESTY'.

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(Other definitions for testy that I've seen before include "Captious" , "Short-tempered" , "Irritably impatient" , "snappy" , "Grumpy" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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