### Clue: Sweet stuff wife's taken from mature people making 17 (4,5)
### Answer: ROCK GROUP 
 ### Explanation: Definition: people making 17
A charade of ROCK ('sweet stuff'; for those who do not know, a stick-shaped and generally peppermint-flavoured candy traditionally associated with seaside resorts) plus GRO[w] UP ('mature') minus the W ('wife's taken from').