| SITTER | Artist's model; a childminder; an easy catch/shot; or, a broody hen (6) |
| CLUCKS | Makes the sound of a broody hen |
| VOLLEY | One shot or a great number of shots together (6) |
| WHIFF | Word for a slight gust or puff; a waft or wave of odour; an inhalation of tobacco smoke; a small cigar; a flag hoisted as a signal; a narrow outrigger; an expulsion of shot; or, a jiffy (5) |
| MAENAD | Recalls Hamlet, for example, with a top model - a wild woman from Greece (6) |
| TOSSTO | Have an easy catch with |
| LOCUST | Position for model, a stripper (6) |
| AVATAR | Female model, a kind of film icon (6) |
| TAHITI | Model a success on one island (6) |
| DOLLY | Child's word for a moppet or a puppet; a posser for stirring laundry in a washtub; an easy catch in cricket; or, a wheeled cart for a film camera (5) |
| AUPAIR | American lifted atmosphere for a young childminder (2,4) |
| MANANA | Ford who championed the Model A |
| MCPHEE | Nanny _, Emma Thompson's transforming childminder (6) |
| NURSEMAID | A childminder had a tender start for a girl becoming a carer (5-4) |
| MISSINGASITTER | Wasting easy opportunity in need of a childminder (7,1,6) |
| LOLLY | Informal word for money; an ice cream, sweet or water ice on a stick; or, an easy catch in cricket (5) |
| INLOCOPARENTIS | Like a childminder making oral inspection when there's been upset (2,4,8) |
| BABYSIT | Graduate beside rest, but work as a childminder (7) |
| STAB | A shot or a dagger wound (4) |
| BABYSITTER | A very young model a" or someone to look after one (4-6) |
