| COSTARD | Clown in the William Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost |
| DULL | Constable in the William Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost |
| DONADRIANODEARMADO | Fantastical Spaniard in William Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost |
| HOLOFERNES | Schoolmaster in William Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Lost |
| MOTH | Page to Don Adriano de Armado in William 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) |
| JAQUENETTA | A country wench in Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Lost |
| 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) |
| JOEY | Nickname of a threepenny bit; a circus clown in the English tradition; or, a baby kangaroo, koala, opossum, wallaby or other marsupial (4) |
| TANG | Clown in the water? |
| SEND | Sondheim's classic, "Isn't it bliss, don't you approve; One who keeps tearing around - and one who can't move; But where are the clowns - ... in the clowns" |
| ZANY | Word, from a stock name of comic servants acting as clowns in the commedia dell'arte, for amusingly bizarre, daft, eccentric or wacky (4) |
