| SIRED | Was father to sit endlessly embarrassed? (5) |
| MANSION | Many sit endlessly on pile |
| BEGAT | Was father to request a time? (5) |
| DERISION | No one was father to upset - such a mockery! (8) |
| ZEBEDEE | Fisherman who was father to the apostles James and John (7) |
| RONNIE | ___ Bailey, briefly thought he was father to his nephew Michael in Corrie (6) |
| BENCARTWRIGHT | In a 1960s-70s TV series, who was father to Adam, Hoss and Little Joe? (3,10) |
| TAMDALYELL | Scottish Labour MP who was Father of the House of Commons from 2001 to 2005 (3,7) |
| PARAGON | To show how good he was, father beheaded the monster (7) |
| WISH | Thy ___ was father, Harry, to that thought (Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2) (4) |
| DEBRIS | Was father holding book when rearing litter? |
| NEHRU | P.M. who was father of another P.M. |
| HAM | Son of Noah who was father of Canaan (3) |
| AAMILNE | Children's author who was father of Christopher Robin |
| LAPETUS | (Greek mythology) The Titan who was father of Atlas and Epimetheus and Prometheus in ancient mytholo |
| AGRICOLA | Roman general who was father-in-law of the historian, Tacitus (8) |
| CISSEUS | Thracian king who was father of Theano, the wife of Antenor, and husband of Telecleia, a daughter of King Ilus of Troy, as related in Homer's Iliad (7) |
| RICHARD | ___ Attenborough, actor who was Father Christmas in Miracle On 34th Street (7) |
| HILL | Which British motor-racing celebrity of the 1960s was father of a 1990s Formula One champ? (6,4) |
| GRAHAM | Which British motor-racing celebrity of the 1960s was father of a 1990s Formula One champ? (6,4) |