I was cluing on autopilot and had something like "Like a doting dad" in there for that answer, but then I was like "hold up, you can do a lot better than that, especially with this theme" and I came up with that clue instead!
Great puzzle! If I knew the non-binary colors I would have known it was WHITE HOT instead of RED HOT and figured out what NOISE was sooner! Seconded on the awesome clue for PATERNAL!