| HALFHEARTEDLY | Held lay father to be wrong, having little enthusiasm (4-9) |
| APPETITE | Dad's upset, having little enthusiasm |
| PLAYHARDTOGET | Show little enthusiasm for drama he'd got with art that's complicated |
| DOUBLECROSSED | Copy marked wrong, having cheated |
| LACKADAISICAL | Showing little enthusiasm and rigour |
| POPPSYCHOLOGY | Required course for fathers-to-be? |
| OBESE | Father-to-be, seen to be a bit overweight? (5) |
| EQUERRY | English Queen to go wrong, having unknown royal assistant |
| ACTSUP | Goes wrong having a drink after court (4,2) |
| SIDEON | Is done wrong, having the flank facing (4-2) |
| GUILTINESS | State of having done something wrong having mangled single suit (10) |
| GEORGE | First name of the young Founding Father-to-be who was fabled to have felled a cherry tree |
| HALFHEARTEDNESS | She's a left-hander, somehow showing little enthusiasm (4,11) |
| HALFHEARTED | The flare had gone out, showing little enthusiasm (4,7) |
| PACE | Act like a nervous father-to-be |
| ACHIEVER | Current chief at centre finds rebellious father to be a highly ambitious sort (8) |
| PAINLESS | It doesn't hurt for father to be out more |
| SHERPA | Haggard heroine comes upon first religious Father to be a mountaineer (6) |
| LITTLE | Matt ___, plays Summer Bay father-to-be VJ Patterson (6) |
| THOMSON | Michael __, actor who plays Holby City nurse and father-to-be Jonny Maconie (7) |
