| BYRON | How Hermione had a child, a poet (5) |
| TOTEM | Symbolically, it gives a child a bit of a problem (5) |
| TOTAL | Sum for a child, a beginner (5) |
| TOTED | Bore a child: a little boy (5) |
| BELLS | "... he who gives a child a treat, makes joy-___ ring...": Masefield |
| NIPPER | A carter, a costermonger or a navvy's boy assistant; a chela of a crab or a lobster; a child; a cutpurse or a pickpocket; a creature that bites or pinches; or, one of a pair of cuffs (6) |
| HAGAR | Egyptian slave who had a child, Ishmael, fathered by Abraham (5) |
| BEGOT | Had a child in the oldfashioned way? (5) |
| SARAH | Biblical mother who had a child at age 90 |
| CHINA | Child, a girl, from a foreign country (5) |
| FEEDER | Container filled with nuts or seeds for garden birds; a bib/bottle for a baby or a child; a tributary stream; or, a railway branch linking outlying areas to the trunk line (6) |
| CHAFF | Small child. A very noisy kid (5) |
| BLIMP | Bishop left mischievous child a balloon (5) |
| ORSON | Removing the other child - a boy (5) |
| SALON | Room the child, a boy, is to occupy (5) |
| MESON | Yours truly and child - a small charge (5) |
| CHART | Plan for the child, a boy (5) |
| CHIMP | Mischief-maker chasing child's a little monkey (5) |
| BOOSTERSEAT | It can give a child a lift |
| ADOPTION | Taking in a child - a daughter by choice |
