| IMPLIED | Insinuated that the naughty child was a fibber too |
| ALLIED | Connected little man was a fibber |
| IMPROVE | Pick up the naughty child that has overturned (7) |
| SOUTHMOLTON | Our first child was expelled from school on Monday - at the start of term he had got into a fight with two others at the youth centre near King's Nympton (5,6) |
| CHARMED | Delighted, as the child was by the funny dream (7) |
| CHOPIN | The composer, as a child, was taken to work in (6) |
| SPANKINGPACE | Lively rate ___ at which the naughty child gets smacked? (8,4) |
| IMPAIR | Look after the naughty child and spoil (6) |
| BADINTENT | What the naughty child out camping is, with malice aforethought (3,6) |
| IMPAIRS | Damages and the naughty child looks on (7) |
| ALIAS | A fibber shortened second name, that's assumed (5) |
| LIAR | Name a more common term for a fibber (4) |
| LYRE | Instrument associated with Orpheus that sounds like a fibber (4) |
| LEGPULL | What the child was told would make it taller, as a joke? (3-4) |
| TAUNG | North West town where the fossilised skull of a child was found in 1924, estimated to be between two and 3,5 million years old (5) |
| ODDSON | Weird child was the favourite (4,2) |
| ILIED | Confession from a fibber: 2 wds. |
| CARDIALGIA | Joker, one who's almost a fibber, admits gravity of heartburn (10) |
| BEGGARBELIEF | Pulling leg, eg a fibber cannot be credible |
| FAMILIAR | Nothing, man's a fibber. Usual (8) |
