| BAAL | Whom children the of Israel served, per Judges |
| MOLOCH | Deity to whom children were sacrificed |
| BREADSTICK | One of over 9 million served per day at Olive Garden |
| TELAVIV | City in Israel served by Ben Gurion International Airport (3,4) |
| EDITH | Forename of the author who wrote The Railway Children, The Story of the Treasure Seekers and also the Psammead that includes The Story of the Amulet (5) |
| ASTOR | Residing at Cliveden with husband Waldorf and children, the first woman to sit in the House of Commons (5) |
| SEED | Children the result of two dates |
| KIDDIES | Children: the result of starving a little animal (7) |
| BABE | Film adaptation of Dick King-Smith's novel for children The Sheep-Pig (4) |
| BUNCH | Series about a family with six children: The Brady _. |
| POTTYTRAIN | Tube to Barking? Show children the way to go (5-5) |
| DRENCH | Thoroughly wet children the Italian left twisting (6) |
| ISSUE | Children the item for discussion (5) |
| EMILAND | Erich Kastner classic for children, ... The Detectives (4,3) |
| JUNGLE | Rudyard Kipling's stories for children, The ... Book |
| BIB | May Gibbs classic creation for Australia children, the gumnut babies, ... %26 Bub (3) |
| TIGERMOMS | Strict parents described by Amy Chua in her 2011 book about raising children the "Chinese way" |
| ASHER | In the Old Testament, the second son of Jacob and Zilpah and founder of one of the 12 tribes of Israel (5) |
| JACOB | In the Old Testament, the son of Isaac who was the father of the 12 patriarchs of Israel (5) |
| AMOS | Third of the twelve minor prophetic books of the Old Testament, composed during the reign of King Jeroboam ll of Israel (c. 786-746 BC) (4) |
