| OCTOMOM | Tabloid nickname given to the parent of Noah, Maliyah, Isaiah, Nariyah, Jonah, Makai, Josiah and Jeremiah |
| 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) |
| PARE | Cut to the parent again (4) |
| TELLS | Tattles to the parents |
| TOLDON | Betrayed to the parents |
| OLDLADY | The --- --- of Threadneedle Street, nickname given to the Bank of England (3,4) |
| TOKYOROSE | Nickname given to the Japanese broadcaster (actually several different women) of propaganda to Allied troops in the Second World War (5,4) |
| SIGNALGATE | Nickname given to the leak of an air-strike-related group chat to which The Atlantic's editor-in-chief was mistakenly added (March, 2025) |
| BRIDGETONOWHERE | Derisive nickname given to the span between Alaska's Gravina Island and Ketchikan |
| BLUEPETER | Nickname given to the nautical signal flag representing the letter "P" or meaning "outward bound" (4,5) |
| MARY | Nickname given to the first public electric steam turbine in the US (4-3) |
| HUEY | Nickname given to the Bell UH-1 helicopter, heavily used in the Vietnam War (4) |
| POVERTY | 'The parent of revolution and crime': Aristotle |
| BOYWONDER | The ___ ___: nickname given to the fictional superhero Dick Grayson (3,6) |
| REDWHITEANDBLUE | Nickname given to the French, US and UK flags (among others) |
| LORDCASHPOINT | Nickname given to the Labour party's former chief fundraiser Baron Levy |
| CLAWS | Nickname given to the Baryonyx dinosaur find made in a clay pit in Surrey in 1983 (5) |
| CUTTYSARK | Nickname given to the witch Nannie Dee in Robert Burns' poem Tam o' Shanter |
| WONDER | Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson play the parents of a boy with Treacher Collins syndrome in this 2017 drama (6) |
| THERE | BBC2 drama starring David Tennant and Jessica Hynes as the parents of a girl with learning difficulties (5,3,4) |
