Related Clues:

• One taken on by new parents
• Merit, perhaps - severed, like A Head of Murdoch
• Pupil living in school
• Child taken on by another family
• One renting and living with the owner
• There's a bed, we're told, for such a pupil
• One in digs
• Time limits accepted by a fool one's taken in
• Resident pupil
• Mysterious paying guest of the Buntings
• Long-term paying guest
• Marge takes in a paying guest
• One renting a room in a house
• Bound to take in a paying guest
• He gets on with the lodger