| ANGULO | In the corner (where laughter was heard): gratus puellae risus ab ____ (Hor. C. 1.9.22) |
| ENTRY | The part of the corner where you 'tip it in.' (5) |
| WICK | One to light up public school where laughter has been banished |
| IOCI | Jokes: risus (4th) et ludi et fortasse sales lepidi |
| CARR | Jimmy, London-born stand-up comedian whose autobiography Before & Laughter was published in 2021 (4) |
| ALPHA | Highest grade of laughter was beneath the peak (5) |
| ONSLAUGHT | Some buffoon's laughter was offensive (9) |
| SUMMOS | Lightning strikes the tops of the mountains, feriunt ... ____ fulgura montes, Hor. C. 2.10.11-12 |
| HONGKONG | Pole and Greek performing in corner where Victoria is (4,4) |
| CLEW | Corner where the leech and foot connect on a fore-and-aft sail (4) |
| VENATOR | Hunter: citus / ____ in campis nivalis / Haemoniae, Hor. C. 1.37.18-20 |
| AVIDAS | Greedy, grasping, vide Hor. C. 4.7.19, cuncta manus ____ fugient heredis |
| SOLVITUR | Lit., it is loosened, so it melts (Hor. C. 1.4.1), including into sleep (Aen. 4.530) |
| RUIT | It falls, eg vis consili expers mole ____ sua, Hor. C. 3.4.65 |
| EXEGI | I've completed, eg monumentum aere perennius, Hor. C. 3.30.1 |
| SANIES | Corrupted blood, venom, eg ____ ... manet / ore trilingui [sc. Cerberi], Hor. C. 3.11.19-20 |
| ACINACES | Gladius quo Medi pugnare solebant (vide Hor. C. 1.27.5) |
| TURA | Incense (acc. pl.): verbenas, pueri, ponite ____que, Hor. C. 1.19.14 |
| MEMOR | Mindful of and remembering: ____ nostri, Galatea, vivas, Hor. C. 3.27.14 |
| DILECTAE | ____ puellae forma: the beauty of your darling girl |