| COSTARD | Clown in the Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost (7) |
| DULL | Constable in the Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost (4) |
| MOTH | Page to Don Adriano de Armado in the Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost (4) |
| DONADRIANO | & 13D Fantastical Spaniard in William Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost (3,7,2,6) |
| DEARMADO | Fantastical Spaniard in William Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost (3,7,2,6) |
| DONADRIANODEARMADO | Fantastical Spaniard in William Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost |
| HOLOFERNES | Schoolmaster in William Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost |
| JAQUENETTA | A country wench in Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Lost |
| ICICLES | They "hang by the wall" according to Shakespeare in Love's Labour's Lost (7) |
| NAVARRE | Ferdinand's kingdom in Shakespeare's comedy Love's Labour's Lost (7) |
| BEROWNE | In Love's Labours Lost, this gentleman in infatuated with Rosaline. Who is it? |
| KENNETH | ___ Branagh, actor who has directed Timothy in Love's Labour's Lost and Hamlet (7) |
| TOUCHSTONE | Clown in the William Shakespeare play As You Like It (10) |
| FESTE | Clown in the William Shakespeare play Twelfth Night (5) |
| PENNYWISE | Evil clown in the 1986 Stephen King horror novel It, played on screen by Bill Skarsgard in 2017 (9) |
| TONIO | Clown in the opera Pagliacci |
| KRUSTY | King, out of practice, sees clown in The Simpsons (6) |
| LAUNCELOT | Mr. Gobbo, clown in The Merchant of Venice (9) |
| JESTER | Clown in the king's court |
| GOBBO | Launcelot, clown in The Merchant of Venice (5) |