Kate is Pregnant

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Across
  1. 4. Cord connecting baby to mother (8)
  2. 5. Small knock or baby’s sign in the stomach (4)
  3. 6. Starts with P ends in male sheep (4)
  4. 7. Place for healing, “hit pals” confused inside (8)
  5. 8. Start of life’s journey (5)
  6. 11. Relating to motherhood (9)
  7. 12. Royal mum-to-be hides in take (anagram)
  8. 14. Hicks False pains confuse a born taxi's hicks? (7,5)
  9. 16. Start of life or idea? (10)
  10. 18. Little one, may cry or coo (4)
  11. 20. Surname sounds like ‘ball hard’ (7)
  12. 21. Increase or develop — progress in green shoots (4)
Down
  1. 1. Fool (5)
  2. 2. Sound beyond human ear detects baby (10)
  3. 3. Work in delivery? Time for effort (6)
  4. 9. Thumping rhythm found at the core of the heart (9)
  5. 10. Period of pregnancy’s duration (9)
  6. 13. Baby’s position backward or bottom first (6)
  7. 15. Baby’s first home, sound of a low boom (4)
  8. 17. Tightening sign before baby arrives (11)
  9. 19. Busy worker heard by the river (6)