| INFANT | What do we call a child during the earliest period of its life (6) |
| REGIME | Mode of government or period of its rule or direction |
| KIDNAPPING | Stealing a child during sleep? (10) |
| SCOT | Person who might call a child a bairn |
| EOLITHIC | Of the earliest period of the Stone Age (8) |
| EPONYM | What do we call a person whose name is thought to be the source of the name of a city, country, etc (6) |
| STROKE | What do we call a sudden interruption to the supply of blood to the brain (6) |
| SALMON | Known during its life cycle as a fry, smolt or parr, a fish sometimes smoked in peat, sweet gale, heather or juniper (6) |
| ANNUAL | What is a plant that completes its life cycle in one year? (6) |
| ABLEST | What do we call a person who is the most qualified (6) |
| INMATE | What do we call a person confined in a hospital, etc (6) |
| JUNKET | What do we call a trip by a politician at public expense, ostensibly to obtain information (6) |
| TELLER | What do we call a bank employee who handles money over the counter (6) |
| REVIEW | What do we call a report or account of something (6) |
| GAGGLE | What do we call a flock of geese (6) |
| MASCOT | What do we call a person, animal or thing supposed to bring good luck (6) |
| AUTHOR | What do we call a person who writes novels, poems, etc (6) |
| SNORER | What do we call a sleeping person who breathes harshly and noisily (6) |
| ANGLER | What do we call a person who fishes for pleasure (6) |
| TRUANT | What do we call a pupil who wags school (6) |
