| URANIA | Belonging to Saturn's father, a Muse of astronomy |
| EUTERPE | Genus of palms named after a Muse of lyric poetry and music (7) |
| WILDING | Uncultivated plant such as the crab-apple; a muse of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; or, Isabella Tree's book about the creation of the Knepp estate (7) |
| DORA | Artist who was a muse of Picasso, ___ Maar (b.1907 d.1997) |
| PATRON | From the Latin meaning "father", a guardian saint; a protector or benefactor; or, the former master of a freedman in ancient Rome (6) |
| PARSEC | Dissect speed of light as a measure of astronomy |
| STEPHEN | Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell's father; a mountaineer and first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography (7) |
| FRAGRANT | Father, a general, found it to be sweet smelling |
| SIRE | Rise up to father a child (4) |
| PASTILLE | Father, a whiskymaker E's a coughdrop! (8) |
| APPAL | Father a friend coming to cause back with dismay (5) |
| PARAGON | For father, a quantity of orange squash is ideal (7) |
| BLUE | Christopher Robin's nickname for his father A. A. Milne (4) |
| TOPAZ | To father, a final letter is precious! (5) |
| PAPAL | Father a friend of the Pope |
| PANAMA | Father, a man may make a canal (6) |
| HEAP | Quite a pile-up when he gives father a turn (4) |
| PAX | Give father a kiss for the sake of peace |
| SHERPA | The woman beside river with father a" a skilled mountaineer (6) |
| PASSAGE | Father's a wise man, in a way (7) |
