Love to escape staggering day care cost for big baby (7-3)
I believe the answer is:
scaredy-cat
'big baby' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'love to escape staggering day care cost' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'day' could be 'd' (abbreviation for day) and 'd' is found in the answer.
'care' could be 'car' (car care is a kind of care) and 'car' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for scaredy-cat that I've seen before include "One easily frightened" , "7 across" , "Timid type" , "Timid person (or feline?)" , "Coward" .)