| GENEALOGY | Personal builder perhaps has a diary from primary years - it covers family life (9) |
| BISTRO | The way writer covers family concern perhaps |
| TAKING | Assuming label covers family (6) |
| IDEALIST | Sounds like principal from primary is a bit of a Walter Mitty (8) |
| DUMPS | Lift sludge from primary school ditches (5) |
| MIXEDHERBS | Hung around with that girl from primary? Best friends, ultimately, with Basil and Rosemary when they're together! (5,5) |
| NEWSWOMAN | One of those that make the papers perhaps has a face like an anchor presumably (9) |
| CATALOGUE | Tiger perhaps has a record broadcast -- and another record! (9) |
| TRIENNIAL | Every three years it will let rain in somehow (9) |
| PERMANENT | By 1926 we used this word to refer to a lasting artificial wave for the hair; within a year it had b |
| MADHATTER | Lewis Carroll character who asks "Does your watch tell you what year it is?" |
| EVIDENTLY | Dip during bad year, it would seem |
| HEADSMASHED | This rather forthrightly named site, near Fort Macleod in Alberta, is a cliff over which hunters chased buffalo; it was used for 6,000 years. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1981. It |
| GENE | Character builder perhaps with a sequence of personal information (4) |
| AGASAGA | A modern novel that deals with family life in a rural setting (3,4) |
| HOUSEHUSBAND | One of the fathers of the D'il perhaps has a partner bringing home a salary (5-7) |
| BERMUDATRIANGLE | Short's m'nage ? trois perhaps has a reputation for performing a disappearing act with the sailors ( |
| CHARACTERPART | One stroke of a Chinese brush perhaps has a role to play |
| ICE | For the first time in millions of years, it was absent from the North Pole |
| QUEENSSPEECH | For many years, it could be heard from Victoria to Westminster |
