| EGOIDEAL | Personal standards and ambitions one aspires to, recognised from one's parents or from society |
| SCAR | Disney villain who sings the lyric "My teeth and ambitions are bared" |
| IDEALS | Standards one aspires to live up to (6) |
| PARACHUTEJUMPER | Standard to have a piece of clothing under sloping channel a one aspires to a soft landing (9,6) |
| WANNABE | One aspires to be girl in web exchange (7) |
| PROSPECTUS | A printed booklet advertising a school or university to potential parents or students (10) |
| GENE | Gift from one's parents |
| APSE | Part from one's parents, returning for recess |
| GENES | Gift from one's parents |
| INHERIT | Receive from one's parents (7) |
| PROPOSAL | A __, Jonathan Swift's way of Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country? (6,8) |
| MODEST | A __, Jonathan Swift's way of Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country? (6,8) |
| PHANTOM | Boy who's lost both parents, or lacking sight of one of them? |
| BODYPOSITIVITY | A movement (dating back to Victorian times) that aims to challenge accepted beauty standards and improve self-confidence (4,10) |
| BUILDINGCODE | Structural safety standards, and what the starts of 20-, 36- and 43- Across are doing? |
| FLAGS | Stone slabs; devices also called colours, ensigns, standards and vexilla; mastheads; or, bushy tails (5) |
| THREE | Number of standards and falls on iris - or there about! (5) |
| SLING | A support for carrying a baby close to the parent or carer's body; a type of catapult; or, a type of rope used as an anchor in abseiling and climbing (5) |
| IDEAL | To which one aspires (5) |
| ELISE | Beethoven composition much loathed by the parents or carers of would-be pianists, Fur ... |