I thought this was good, after the pain of last week.
Rrrobbo - get the chambers app. It's excellent, will halve the time it takes you to solve. Plus you can solve on the train or away for the weekend without having to cart the BRB around.
It was really good, I agree. Managed to get the boundary and resolve all the clashes (I was trying to make words out of the 8 clashes instead of changing them to create 2 larger words). There's a couple of clues I still can't parse so I might post them tomorrow.
Brendan, the Chambers entry refers to 'newborn infants', hence 'for a child' is part of the definition. The wordplay is AP (abbrev. for 'apparently', NE (obsolete form of 'not') + A.