| ATPRESENT | A toddler's first gift produced now (2,7) |
| NOWYOURETALKING | Parent's exclamation after a toddler's first sentences? |
| EASTEREGG | Seasonal gift produced by awkward eaters, for example, is great (6,3) |
| KUMMEL | Sweet liqueur originating in the Netherlands; principally produced now in Germany, in whose language its name means 'caraway' (6) |
| MERMAID | Christmas gift produced, we hear, for fabulous lady (7) |
| PARTRIDGE | Bird gets true love's first gift (9) |
| TETRAGRAM | Atwood is upset about toddler's first four-letter word (9) |
| PLAYDATES | Entries in a toddler's social calendar |
| BIGKIDBED | Cute name for a toddler's post-crib sleeping spot |
| PEAR | A pome of a rosaceous tree given with a partridge as the first gift in The Twelve Days of Christmas (4) |
| PEARTREE | Seasonal song's first gift, partly (4,4) |
| GOLD | Force getting on with first gift (4) |
| GRAFFITIARTIST | First gift ___ tiara designed for street painter (8,6) |
| RAYON | So-called "laboratory's first gift to the loom" |
| TERSE | Toddler's first language is brief (5) |
| ABC | Toddler's first letters |
| MAMA | Toddler's first word, maybe |
| THEKEYOFTHEDOOR | Means of opening adult's first gift? (3,3,2,3,4) |
| BREATH | Life's first gift and last whisper, given freely but at times taken for granted - it's the air we inhale and exhale all day long, until it is gone (6) |
| TANTRUM | Worker appearing with drink after toddler's first fit of temper (7) |
