Lads in top form? (10)
I believe the answer is:
schoolboys
'lads in top form?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'lads in' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'lads' could be 'boys' (I've seen this before) and 'boys' is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'school' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for schoolboys that I've seen is " pupils".)