| BOUNCYCASTLES | Inflatable equipment, stylised as fortifications, on which children can jump and play (6,7) |
| BOUNCYCASTLE | Inflatable on which to jump and play (6,6) |
| IVY | Climbing over old garden walls and tree trunks, an evergreen with berries eaten by blackbirds, thrushes and wood pigeons and leaves stylised as "hedera" printer's fleurons (3) |
| STAR | Object observed in a constellation, galaxy or stylised as an asterisk, estoile, mullet or pentagram (4) |
| MAGINOT | Line of fortifications on France's eastern border, named after a 1930s Minister of War (7) |
| CATCHMENTAREA | Zone in which children must live in order to qualify as a pupil for a particular school (9,4) |
| WARWICKCASTLE | Major fortification on the river Avon originally built by Henry de Newburgh (7,6) |
| TOWEROFLONDON | Fortification on the bank of the River Thames featuring Yeoman Warders (5,2,6) |
| MUSICALCHAIRS | Game at which children always leave one standing? (7,6) |
| CHUTE | Children can go down on it ___ sounds as if it goes up! (5) |
| NURSERY | Where children can play with tender on miniature railway (7) |
| SANDPIT | Shallow box where children can play with buckets and spades |
| BIMODAL | They can jump far because they have ___ breathing which allows them to take in more oxygen via arachnid lungs and a tracheal system which increases the blood pressure in their hind legs |
| NOTHING | On retiring before remarkable night, naughty children can expect to receive this? (7) |
| PLAYPEN | Scheme involves close to twenty exercises in which small children can lark about |
| HULAHOOP | A toy ring usually made of plastic that children can play with around their waist (4,4) |
| SEESAW | Notice spotted showing what children can play with (3-3) |
| TRICKORTREAT | Halloween tradition in which children dress in costume and visit houses (5,2,5) |
| MOATS | Water-filled ditches as fortifications (5) |
| FOSSES | Ditches filled with water as fortifications (6) |
