| BARNARDO | Charged 88 times with kidnapping for removing children from abusive homes, this pioneer of orphanage |
| UNLIT | One of the rarest kinds of Christmas tree in UK homes this week |
| AUCTION | Extremely bad, running kidnapping for sale (7) |
| RANSOM | Charge associated with kidnapping (6) |
| SAMMY | Macclesfield Town manager from 1993 to 2000, ___ McIlroy; he appeared 88 times as a midfielder for Northern Ireland (5) |
| BAD | Michael Jackson hit whose title is heard 88 times in the song |
| POORHOUSE | Shelter for the needy shattered our hopes about opening of orphanage (9) |
| GERONIMO | Brave child, for example, rebelling against head of orphanage (8) |
| AMYJOHNSON | At the declaration of WWII this pioneer aviatrix joined the Air Transport Auxiliary but died in 1939 |
| BOOZY | Drunken head of orphanage in Dickens ending in penury |
| HOUSE | Michael L an don starred in this pioneer tale (Little On The Prairie) |
| ISSUES | A number of children from different families acted from case studies (6) |
| ADOPT | Warbucks does this for Annie, and saves her from Miss Hannigan's orphanage |
| WRINKLEINTIME | A ___ young adult book written by Madeleine L'Engle about a journey of a group of children from universe to universe: 3 wds. |
| MARIA | And 17 Labour MP; Minister for Children from 2005-06 (5,5) |
| PIPER | Operation Pied -; evacuation in Britain of children from cities to rural areas during the Second World War (5) |
| SEQUIN | One of five children from the south-east? Sparkly little thing (6) |
| DEESCALATE | Lessen intensity of children from the East - cold, posh and lastminute (2-8) |
| NESBIT | Novelist noted for her classic tale about the fictional railway children from Three Chimneys (6) |
| ALLOUT | No-one home - this kind of strike involves everyone (3-3) |
