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Answer for the clue "Early chubbiness ", 9 letters:
puppy fat

Word definitions for puppy fat in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. fat on the body of a baby or child; disappears at adolsecence

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. the natural fat on the body of a child that normally disappears at adolescence

Usage examples of puppy fat.

It seemed that his strength grew with each day in the diggings, the puppy fat was burned away, and he made that final spurt to his full height without outstripping his strength.

She was wearing a black leather jacket over a gun-metal-grey satin camisole top and black velvet shorts above black-stockinged legs that had lost any trace of puppy fat.

Having shot up to five feet ten and lost his puppy fat in his twenties, Tony had in middle age grown very attractive in a brutal sort of way.

The last traces of girlishness, uncertainty, and puppy fat had evaporated from her features, and she had become a woman, mature and composed.

Penny had never looked that bad, even in the worst stages of puppy fat and pimples.

My puppy fat had almost disappeared entirely, my legs were long and strong (although my back legs were a little cow-hocked).

The last garlands of puppy fat around his torso were replaced by hard muscle and it seemed that before her eyes his chest broadened and took on a covering of springing dark curls.

Round freckled face, dark-hazel eyes and brown hair, still a trace of puppy fat.

Her face had begun to lose puppy fat, and yes, there was something of her father in her eyes as well, for all they were blue rather than green.

Sean was already taking on the shape of a man: his shoulders were thickening, and there was hard muscle forming in his puppy fat.

Cee Cee, I knew, was probably going to look just like her aunt Pru someday, once she got rid of the braces and puppy fat, that is.

That lack of exercise meant that unlike the rest of his year his puppy fat hadn't burned off.