| Decide to use, as a policy | 26 |
| Become parents to | 17 |
| Become a new father, in a way | 29 |
| Become a mother, maybe | 22 |
| Approve, as a plan | 18 |
| Take up, as a strategy | 22 |
| Take up and use | 15 |
| Take on a pet project? | 22 |
| Take kids in | 12 |
| Take into one's home | 24 |
| Take into custody? | 18 |
| Take in, as a stray cat | 23 |
| Take in, as a stray | 19 |
| Take in by choice | 17 |
| Take in a kid | 13 |
| Take in a foundling | 19 |
| Take home from the shelter | 26 |
| Take an animal from the shelter | 31 |
| Take a kid, legally | 19 |
| Take 4, clue 4 | 14 |
| Sure way to motherhood | 22 |
| Sure way to fatherhood | 22 |
| Shelter exhortation | 19 |
| Select and take | 15 |
| Rescue, as a pet | 16 |
| Put into effect, as a proposal | 30 |
| Pick up a few pointers? | 23 |
| Opposite of reject | 18 |
| One way to motherhood | 21 |
| One way to get a new toy | 24 |
| One way to fatherhood | 21 |
| One of the ASPCA's "Ways to Help" | 47 |
| Give a foundling a home | 23 |
| Get from the ASPCA, maybe | 25 |
| Get from the ASPCA | 18 |
| Get a pound pooch, say | 22 |
| Get a pet from the pound, say | 29 |
| Emulate Madonna | 15 |
| Emulate Angelina Jolie and Madonna | 34 |
| Embrace, as ideas | 17 |
| Embrace, as a policy | 20 |
| Embrace as one's own | 24 |
| Decide to use | 13 |
| Choose, as a textbook series | 28 |
| Choose, as a policy | 19 |
| Choose for keeps | 16 |
| Choose and take | 15 |
| Bring in, as a boxer to one's home | 38 |
| Become parents, in a way | 24 |
| Become a parent of, in court | 28 |
| Appropriate, as an idea | 23 |
| Accept formally and put into effect | 35 |
| ___ a platform | 14 |
| Tarzan, for one | 15 |
| Oliver Twist, for one | 21 |
| Oliver Twist, e.g. | 18 |
| One taken in | 12 |
| Clark Kent, for one | 19 |
| Annie, e.g. | 11 |
| One who's taken in | 22 |
| One taken in by another | 23 |
| One of three for Angelina Jolie | 31 |
| Former orphan | 13 |
| Ex-orphan | 9 |
| Swee'Pea, to Popeye | 23 |
| Stuart Little, for one | 22 |
| Someone who's taken in | 26 |
| Shelter denizen, potentially | 28 |
| Rescued dog, e.g. | 17 |
| Rescue dog, for example | 23 |
| One who gets taken in | 21 |
| One taken under another's wing | 34 |
| One placed by an agency, perhaps | 32 |
| Member of some families | 23 |
| Many a pet | 10 |
| Kid with a new home | 19 |
| Ernie of "My Three Sons," e.g. | 40 |
| Birth-parent seeker | 19 |
| Birth parent seeker | 19 |
| Anne of Green Gables, for one | 29 |
| Orphan's new parent | 23 |
| Early ___ (technology fan, often) | 33 |
| Textbook selector | 17 |
| Surrogate parent | 16 |
| Pet shelter visitor, perhaps | 28 |
| Parent-by-choice, of sorts | 26 |
| Parent by choice | 16 |
| Mr. Brownlow, to Oliver Twist | 29 |
| Mother who never had a delivery? | 32 |
| Many a parent | 13 |
| Instant parent | 14 |
| Embraces | 8 |
| Takes as one's own | 22 |
| Accepts, as a resolution | 24 |
| Ratifies | 8 |
| Makes one's own | 19 |
| Takes into one's family | 27 |
| Passes, as legislation | 22 |
| Espouses | 8 |
| Votes to accept | 15 |