| PIPPIN | The hobbit Peregrin Took, who helped save Denethor's son from the pyre |
| RALPH | Chief Wiggum's son from The Simpsons |
| EGLANTINE | Mother of the hobbit Peregrin 'Pippin' Took in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1954-5) (9) |
| ISAACSTERN | Musician who helped save Carnegie Hall from demolition |
| TOOK | Surname of Tolkien's hobbit Pippin, whose true name, Peregrin, is taken from the Latin for "pilgrim" (4) |
| JUNIOR | From the Latin meaning "younger", the less senior of two people; a primary school pupil or under-boy; or, a word used to distinguish a son from his father (6) |
| VCR | Mr. Rogers helped save it, with 1983 Supreme Court testimony |
| PHOENIX | The mythical bird that rose from the ashes of its own funeral pyre |
| GRU | Character who must protect his family and newborn son from Maxime Le Mal in the upcoming "Despicable Me 4" |
| SETH | In the book of Genesis, Adam and Eve's third son, from whom Noah descended (4) |
| HAN | He helped save Leia |
| GHAT | A stairway to the river Ganges or the cremation pyre erected there |
| YOUNGER | Word sometimes used to distinguish a son from a father with the same name, Jan Brueghel or William Pitt, for example (7) |
| ALLSWTHATENDSW | It begins, 'In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband' |
| COTERIE | Clique's expelling son from esoteric movement (7) |
| HEADSMAN | Chief protects son from would-be executioners (8) |
| EMMET | Son from Rhineland town bumped into tourist in Cornwall |
| ICILY | With chilling effect, remove son from Mediterranean island |
| IRANIANS | One royal wife with a new son from Teheran (8) |
| TYSON | Try dropping right to get son from boxer (5) |
