Possible Clues:

• Rejected sweets, under pressure
• Overly tense
• Put under strain by being Italicised?
• Focused attention on having kittens
• Last of rabbits with hare, say, in a stew
• Under pressure, fools around
• Drew attention to small pudding turning up
• Under pressure, sending sweets back
• Draw attention to 9 across, in short, desperate for a holiday
• Hair in two different directions -- daughter's worried