| INLOCOPARENTIS | Like a childminder making oral inspection when there's been upset (2,4,8) |
| NANNY | Childminder making a couple of notes in confines of nursery (5) |
| ONCEOVER | Quick inspection when done (4-4) |
| MISSINGASITTER | Wasting easy opportunity in need of a childminder (7,1,6) |
| NURSEMAID | A childminder had a tender start for a girl becoming a carer (5-4) |
| SITTER | An artist's model; a broody hen on her clutch of eggs; a childminder; a church seat; an easy catch/shot in sport; or, a seance participant (6) |
| SCREWUP | Make one nervous when there's been a fiasco (5,2) |
| GAP | Opening when there's been a removal, perhaps (3) |
| SPRAYER | Rose seen in the garden when there's been no rain? |
| FOSSAE | Trenches so safe when there's been an upheaval (6) |
| BABYSIT | Graduate beside rest, but work as a childminder (7) |
| REMEMBRANCE | Been upset with crammer, such a souvenir having been found (11) |
| ANNOUNCE | Declare, once a nun has been upset (8) |
| OVERSET | Is finished with a clique that's been upset (7) |
| ASHEN | Has been upset when only half as pale as this (5) |
| PALINDROME | In a word, though there's been a volte face, nothing's changed (10) |
| CONCRETE | There's been a recent change of Commanding Officer. A real hard one! |
| BENEFACTOR | Patron who has been upset by agent (10) |
| LAG | Don't keep up young lady who's been upset |
| SORTIE | Sally's aggrieved about it, having been upset |