| ERDA | Mother of the |
| RHEA | Who is the mother of the gods and Zeus's mother and left him in the care of a nurse on Crete? |
| ANNE | Forename of Thomas and Elizabeth Boleyn's daughter who was the second wife of Henry VIII and the mother of the last Tudor monarch (4) |
| RULETHEROOST | What the bossy mother-of-the-bride might do on the hen night to keep things from getting out of control (4,3,5) |
| ROSEPARKS | The 'mother of the civil rights movement', best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955/56 (4,5) |
| SONINLAW | What the mother of the bride calls the groom after the wedding |
| ROCKET | The herb arugula; a firework; the rising of a game bird when flushed; or, with "sweet", dame's-violet or mother-of-the-evening with nightscented honesty-like blooms (6) |
| HARRIETHARMAN | The longest-ever continuously serving female MP in the House of Commons, dubbed "Mother of the House" by PM Theresa May in 2017 (7,6) |
| ROSEKENNEDY | The mother of the 35th president of the United States (4,7) |
| EGLANTINE | Mother of the hobbit Peregrin 'Pippin' Took in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1954-5) (9) |
| CYBELE | Phrygian goddess of nature often called the "Mother of the Gods" (6) |
| FERGUSON | Maiden name of Sarah, Duchess of York, mother of the princesses Beatrice and Eugenie (8) |
| AGRIPPINA | Mother of the Roman emperor Caligula and granddaughter of Augustus; known as the Elder; (c. 14 BC-33 AD) (9) |
| PASIPHAE | Wife of King Minos of Crete and mother of the Minotaur (8) |
| RASHAD | Actress Phylicia who was nicknamed "The Mother of the Black Community" at the 2010 NAACP Image Awards |
| ABIGAIL | ____ Adams, U.S. First Lady who was wife of the second president and mother of the sixth (7) |
| CARME | Small moon (with a radius of 14 miles) discovered in 1938 by Seth Barnes Nicholson and named for the mother of the Cretan deity Britomartis (5) |
| LEAH | Wife of King Stefan and mother of the titular Aurora in the 1959 Disney film Sleeping Beauty (4) |
| ELARA | Eighth-largest satellite of Jupiter, named after the mother of the mythical giant Tityos (5) |
| PHILIPPA | ____ of Hainault, queen consort of England 1328-1369, and mother of the Black Prince (8) |
