| UMBILICAL | ____ cord, tube that connects an unborn baby to its mother (9) |
| PIPE | Tube that connects a sink to the water main |
| TOMBOLO | Sandbar or spit that connects an island to the mainland (7) |
| APRONSTRINGS | Loose strap on bands that tie a child to its mother (5,7) |
| BAA | Lamb's call to its mother |
| CAPILLARY | What minute blood vessel connects an artery with a vein? (9) |
| COLOSTRUM | Commanding officer was deprived of liquor, it's mother's milk to us! (9) |
| ADAMSWINE | A pig swilling its mother's water (5,4) |
| CORD | Long flexible tube connecting an unborn baby with the placenta (9,4) |
| ASWELL | Grudging response to 15: "A toff over a butcher's has to live like an unborn baby" (2,4,2,3,2,8) |
| WOMB | Woman's organ in which an unborn baby grows to term |
| OVEN | Place for an unborn baby, so to speak |
| ULTRASOUND | Scanning for an image of part of the body's interior, e.g. when monitoring an unborn baby (10) |
| FETAL | Relating to an unborn baby (5) |
| FOETAL | Describing an unborn baby of late development (6) |
| EMBRYO | Altered my robe for an unborn baby (6) |
| AMNIOTICFLUID | Liquid around an unborn baby (8,5) |
| WEAN | Accustom an infant to food rather than its mother's milk (4) |
| TITLE | Name the bird, male, that's been abandoned by its mother (5) |
| WEANS | Detaches a baby from its mother's milk |
