| MEATEATER | Mother's going around Tanzania with net essentially to find mongoose, for example (4-5) |
| ODIN | Programming essentially to find God... (4) |
| KILIMANJARO | Dormant volcano in Tanzania with three cones - Shira, Kibo and Mawenzi; Africa's highest mountain (11) |
| LINGERING | Feigning illness when mother's going, being reluctant to say goodbye |
| HOMOPTERA | Insects troubled a mother going about work |
| CARPETBAG | See! Mary Poppins essentially to get flying across Britain carrying one? (6,3) |
| AGREEABLE | Pinch 17 drivers, essentially, to get carrot (9) |
| LIFELINES | Rescuers bring back milk, essentially to cats (9) |
| ECOMMERCE | Concerned with net sales of drugs sold on Internet perhaps? (1-8) |
| ENTANGLED | Got all wound up with net perhaps as one fished (9) |
| RETIARIUS | Gladiator armed with net and trident |
| HOMETRUTH | It's not nice to hear mother's going round bend like this without us (4,5) |
| SAMOS | So mother's going back to Greek island (5) |
| MAPS | Charts required when mother's going round the capital of Panama (4) |
| EXAMS | Former girlfriend accompanies mother going back for small tests (5) |
| CINEMA | It makes a nice change with Mother, going to the pictures (6) |
| FAXMACHINE | Apparatus, it's used to send message to mother going over ravine (3,7) |
| MASCOT | Mother's going to bed that's charming! (6) |
| MAHATMA | Sage's mother going round Panama, for example |
| PHUMA | Ends up with you and mother going out (5) |
