| SPANKER | Parent of a naughty child, perhaps |
| POTATO | Informal word for a large hole in a sock or stocking; or, according to Icelandic tradition, a vegetable left by the Yule Lads in a shoe of a naughty child at Christmas (6) |
| PESTO | The sauce of a naughty child beginning to obtrude |
| DAM | From "lady", the female parent of a calf, foal or other animal; a barrier or weir checking the downward flow of a river's water; or, a beaver's lodge (3) |
| EGGPLANTEMOJI | Symbol that might be part of a naughty text |
| NYMPHO | Star of a naughty movie? |
| ADOPT | Become a parent of a child by law |
| HANDSDOWN | Gives to a child, perhaps, a piece of cake! (5,4) |
| SMOKEDCIGARS | Celebrated the birth of a child, perhaps |
| SPANK | Punish a naughty child, in a way |
| ROOM | Go to your ___ (parent's instruction to a naughty child) |
| LUMP | ___ of coal (stocking stuffer for a naughty child) |
| DUNNOCK | A hedge sparrow, of which the hen lays turquoise-blue eggs and is sometimes the unwitting foster parent of a cuckoo chick (7) |
| ZEBRA | Parent of a zorse or a zonkey |
| CATPERSON | Parent of a fur baby, perhaps |
| GRANDMOTHER | Female parent of a parent |
| DECAL | Temporary "tattoo" for a young child, perhaps |
| CHEF | Child, perhaps, of La Rochefoucauld |
| COT | Rollout at a hotel for an only child, perhaps |
| MARKER | Writing implement, for a child perhaps |
