Don’t think there’s a pun here. Basically, the Hyakunin Isshu karuta cards look something like this:
Notice the hats.
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Yeah, I meant the whole 被ってる かぶってる. It was my fault for trusting Google Translate instead of myself, and not even looking in Jisho. 
So, やきにく is this?
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Yeah, 被る is at Enlightened for me on WaniKani, but I’m clearly yet to learn it at all, because it throws me Every. Single. Time.
Ah. I think I was picturing yakitori, where you get served the already-grilled chicken. If it’s Korean barbecue, the clue makes more sense.
It was a small fire, omg.
Can we get a finished product? 
So, while doing my N4 homework:
子供が寝ているうちに、洗濯をしておこう。
Coincidence? I think not.
So did you check it? How’d we do?
Yah, we did good. Full marks. 
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Next puzzle!
Considering how many clues are パパとママ, I’m a bit concerned it’s going to be a bit tricky. Reckon one of the answers is going to be リョウシン. Not 1-across, though.
I feel like 10-across is シャシン. With more confidence, 23-down is ニシン (which, as an added bonus, works with シャシン). And 14-down could be オヤ.
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Hm I guess 14 across is related to 地球温暖化, but it doesn’t fit. おんしつこうか？ (green house effect)
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13 down could be 焦げ(コゲ, burned)
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１７↓ キカンシ
２２→ シンカ
２６↓ トンボ
２７→ ボンサイ(?)
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That makes 18-across カニ. Ho ho.
31-down カンキコウ
16-across テント
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Suddenly thinking 1-down is ファミリーレストラン
That gives us a lot of first letters to base cross words off.
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３→ リビング
１１↓ フィアンセ
１→ フウフ
１２→ センス
１５↓ グンテ
２１↓ スンシ
２９↓ イカ
９↓ ツジツマ
Yeah, I had a feeling the middle character of 12-across was going to be ン
5-across スジコ
6-across トツゲキ
Thus 13-down コゲ
Thinking 20-across is ナツ. Then 19-down could be オトナ, maybe?
So, when it’s a ゃ it can also be used as や?
25➝ How about ネイビー?
Not confident, but I found a few articles about business casual saying ノーネクタイ and ネイビー スーツ.
Although the secret word could be けっこんしき.
Probably 25➝ けいかい then, casual (e.g. dress)
Surely, 33↓ ends in なき, but うそなき and そらなき don’t really fit.
Yep. One of the rules of Japanese crosswords - small characters and normal characters are equivalent. And a katakana long-vowel character can represent different vowels at the same time.
You literally just suggested a word which put a か as the second character of 33-down, so surely you’d want to suggest words that fit that pattern. If it helps any, I’m fairly sure えーんえーん is the sound of a baby’s cry.
Would like to posit アオイキトイキ for 2-across, but I’m not overjoyed with either that or the resulting ウオ for 8-down.
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