| GOODWIFE | Supply e.g. WI food for one who cared for bairns (8) |
| ABSTAINER | Non-drinker can brew up tea for bairns (9) |
| SCOT | Small infant's bed for bairn? |
| WEAN | Another Scots term for bairn (4) |
| PLANKTON | Whale - food for one hundred on board (8) |
| DEMOCRAT | Tom, who cared about being a politician? (8) |
| ANNOTATE | To supply e.g. a text or diagram with marginal comments (8) |
| BEARINGS | Bairn's rigmarole breaking devices in Heraldry (8,8) |
| ARMORIAL | Bairn's rigmarole breaking devices in Heraldry (8,8) |
| BRISBANE | Strange bairns be in Oz (8) |
| CHILDREN | BAIRNS |
| NURSERY | Person who cared for them rarely cleared out greenhouse, for instance |
| THERULES | Tory makes bairn her occasional builders, and stays within the law (8,2,3,5) |
| THEVERYBEST | What may be wished for someone who's cared for somehow by three vets (3,4,4) |
| LADYCHATTERLEY | Her official partner being injured, she sought another who cared for the game |
| TREVES | Frederick, surgeon who cared for the Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick (6) |
| NURSE | Comes running back to embrace person who cared for them |
| NANA | Canine nursemaid who cared for the Darling children in Peter Pan (4) |
| HYADES | In Greek mythology, seven nymphs who cared for Dionysus on Mt. Nysa (6) |
| ISAAC | Dales son of Cain and Moira, who cared for Minty the lamb (5) |
