| IDLENESS | "The mother of |
| JOAN | Known as the Fair Maid of Kent, the forename of the wife of Edward the Black Prince who was the mother of Richard II (4) |
| HERODIAS | In the New Testament, the mother of Salome who asked for the head of John the Baptist (8) |
| EUROPA | Named after the mother of Minos, the smallest of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter (6) |
| RHEA | Who is the mother of the gods and Zeus's mother and left him in the care of a nurse on Crete? |
| ALICE | Princess - of Battenberg; great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria and the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (5) |
| MATER | The mother of a colleague near the top of the road (5) |
| WOODVILLE | Maiden name of Edward IV's "White Queen" written about by Philippa Gregory who was the mother of 12 children including the Princes in the Tower (9) |
| VERITAS | In Roman mythology, the goddess of truth, a daughter of Saturn and the mother of Virtue (7) |
| ROSEPARKS | The 'mother of the civil rights movement', best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955/56 (4,5) |
| GRANTED | Allowed the mother of one of the parents to take the boy (7) |
| SONINLAW | What the mother of the bride calls the groom after the wedding |
| STEROPE | One of the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, of Greek mythology, said to be the mother of Oenomaus by Ares (7) |
| ROSEKENNEDY | The mother of the 35th president of the United States (4,7) |
| ISIS | Goddess of ancient Egypt, considered to be the mother of Horus and of the pharaohs (4) |
| MAIA | Eldest of the Pleiades and the mother of Hermes |
| ELEANOR | ___ of Aquitaine was the mother of king Richard I of England (7) |
| CYBELE | Phrygian goddess of nature often called the "Mother of the Gods" (6) |
| AQUITAINE | Eleanor of ---, medieval queen consort of France and England; the mother of King Richard I and King John (9) |
| MATILDA | 12th Century empress, the daughter and heir of Henry I and the mother of Henry II (7) |
