| PULCINELLA | Character that originated in commedia dell'arte and evolved into Mr Punch in England (10) |
| TOBY | Dog owned by Mr Punch in traditional Punch and Judy shows (4) |
| HARLEQUIN | Masked lover of Columbine dressed in a diamond-patterned costume in commedia dell'arte and traditional pantomime (9) |
| PUNCH | ___ and Judy comedy duo had their origins in 16th-century commedia dell'arte and were still in popular in the 19th century as puppets. |
| PIERROT | Depicted in a painting by Antoine Watteau, name of the sad clown stock character in commedia dell'arte (7) |
| PANTALONE | Lecherous old merchant who is one of the most important principal characters in commedia dell'arte |
| HUMP | Shared feature of Mr Punch, Richard III |
| SCARAMOUCH | A stock character who appears as a boastful coward in Italian commedia dell'arte (10) |
| OPERASERIA | Commedia dell'arte alternative |
| ROVERMETRO | Which supermini evolved into the 100 in the mid 1990s? (5,5) |
| PANTALOON | English name of a Venetian character in Italian commedia dell'arte represented as a foolish old man (9) |
| RABBIT | Fictional character who trespassed into Mr McGregor's garden (5,6) |
| PETER | Fictional character who trespassed into Mr McGregor's garden (5,6) |
| SCARAMOUCHE | Boastful coward in Italian commedia dell'arte, usually represented as a black- clad mock Spanish don (11) |
| LAZZO | Italian word for a gag, jig or joke in the commedia dell'arte (5) |
| COLUMBINE | Sweetheart of Harlequin in Italian commedia dell"arte (9) |
| ZANY | From the name of a stock comic servant in the commedia dell'arte, a word used to mean absurd, amusingly eccentric, bizarre or clownish (4) |
| OLDSAXON | Language that evolved into Middle Low German in the 12th Century (3,5) |
| PIPERGTT | Sports special introduced in the late 1960s that evolved into the P2 (5,3) |
| POTION | It transforms Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde |
