| HONEYBABYMINE | 2023 joint memoir subtitled A Mother and Daughter Talk Life Death Love (and Banana Pudding): 3 wds. |
| DATING | Mother-daughter talk topic |
| SISSY | Best-selling 2019 memoir subtitled "A Coming-of-Gender Story" |
| AMYANDISABELLE | Elizabeth Strout novel set in the fictional town of Shirley Falls about a mother and daughter (3 wds.) |
| NATURED | A mother and daughter having some temper |
| BATES | Surname of a mother and daughter in Jane Austen's Emma (5) |
| DONOHARM | 2014 memoir subtitled "Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery" |
| HOLAPAPI | John Paul Brammer memoir subtitled "How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons" |
| MAID | Stephanie Land memoir subtitled "Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive" |
| ASP | A snake in the grass? No - It's in the Christmas pudding (3) |
| EATPRAYLOVE | Best-selling 2006 memoir subtitled "One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indon |
| ONEL | Turow memoir subtitled "The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School" |
| HODA | 2010 memoir subtitled How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee |
| BONDING | The formation of a close attachment, especially that between a mother and child (7) |
| LOGO | Unicef image of a mother and child in a globe surrounded by laurel leaves |
| TIL | Joely Fisher sitcom about married life, ...Death ('3) |
| QUIETUS | A release from life; death (7) |
| REESES | Candy brand with a "Peanut Butter & Banana Creme" variety released as a tribute to Elvis in 2007 |
| EVE | Literary word for nightfall; the day or night before a notable occasion or festival, such as Christmas Day; or, the biblical first woman recalled in the name of an apple pudding (3) |
| SPOT | "Managua, Nicaragua, what a wonderful ...; There's coffee and bananas and a temperature hot" |
