| UPKEEP | Cost of looking after a child or animals |
| SITTER | Someone looking after a child - an easy one (6) |
| JANITOR | He has a way of looking after a joint right (7) |
| BABYSIT | To look after a child or children in the absence of parents (4,3) |
| LAYOVEROVERHEAD | Cost of looking after people between flights? |
| NURSELING | A child or animal that is being suckled or fostered |
| ORPHAN | A child or animal whose parents are no longer alive (6) |
| WEANLING | A child or animal newly weaned (8) |
| CHIT | From Hindi for "note, pass", a short letter; a signed bill recording a sum owed for food, drinks etc; or, from "kitten", a child or an impudent girl (4) |
| GEE | A command urging a horse forth, thus reduplicated in a child or a racegoer's name for such a steed (3) |
| ADLITEM | Of a guardian etc, appointed to act on behalf of a child or other incapable person in a lawsuit (2,5) |
| HANDLER | Person in charge of looking after animals on film set (7) |
| BABYBOND | A sum of money invested soon after a child's birth to be collected in later life (4,4) |
| PRODIGY | A person, especially a child or young person, having extraordinary talent or ability. (7) |
| POPPET | Term of affection for a child or sweetheart (6) |
| RAGAMUFFIN | A child or a ragged person who looks really unkempt (10) |
| PARENTHOOD | State of having a child or children |
| PIPE | Sound like a child or a churchwarden, perhaps (4) |
| RAISES | Brings up a child or a subject |
| CARER | One looking after a sick or vulnerable person (5) |
