Possible Clues:

• no, this would have have one on the move with Mother back there
• Cracked up to hold water up
• Mother turns cross
• Cuckoo
• Dam's reversal?
• It features 'Drawn-Out Dramas'
• Its first issue included 'Crow Vadis?'
• Nuts or crackers
• Like some fictional scientists
• Knocked over barrier, like the March Hare