| SKELTON | Early TV comedy featuring characters Freddie the Freeloader and Clem Kadiddlehopper, The Red ... Sho |
| SKELTONSHOW | Early TV comedy featuring characters Freddie the Freeloader and Clem Kadiddlehopper, The Red ... (7, |
| HOBOES | Freddie the Freeloader and others |
| BUM | Red Skelton's Freddie the Freeloader, for one |
| BEAUX | The -' Stratagem; George Farquhar's 1707 comedy featuring characters including Archer, Aimwell, Boniface, Cherry and Lady Bountiful, revived by Simon Godwin at the National Theatre in 2015 (5) |
| TRAMP | Freddie the Freeloader, e.g. |
| HOBOS | Freddie the Freeloader et al. |
| HOBO | Skelton's Freddie the Freeloader, for one |
| EMBARRASSEDSKELTON | Freddie the Freeloader portrayer, to Roget? |
| REDSKELTON | Freddie the Freeloader portrayer |
| RED | Freddie the Freeloader's portrayer |
| JUST | TV comedy featuring David Spade and George Segal, ... Shoot Me! |
| LIBERALDEMOCRAT | Adlai and Clem involved with Robert Kennedy supporter (7,8) |
| OINK | 1980s comic for children to which a young Charlie Brooker contributed the characters Freddie Flop, Disgusting Des, Clint Gritwood and Transmogrifying Tracey |
| BURNS | Radio/early TV comedy duo half |
| ALLEN | Radio/early TV comedy duo half |
| ERNIE | Kovacs of early TV comedy |
| FREDDIE | Red Skelton's ___ the Freeloader |
| STARR | Surname of Freddie, the comedian who withdrew from I'm A Celeb in 2011 for health reasons (5) |
| SPONGERS | Freeloaders and wife-swappers making group of women pose half-cut (8) |