| HARLEQUIN | Laugh right at the French sibling, a comic character |
| HARSH | Inartistic laugh right at the Southern Hemisphere |
| SIS | You may be a sibling, a nun, a nurse |
| SEPTUPLET | A month to put off getting the French sibling (9) |
| SISAL | Fibre the French sibling rejected (5) |
| HARLEQUINADE | A play or part of a pantomime in which a comic character wearing diamond-patterned multicoloured tights has a leading role (12) |
| HARMONICA | One is played for a bit of a laugh, right, by girl (9) |
| PUNCHUP | Fight to get a comic character to the top (5-2) |
| HARPIST | Musician, bit of a laugh, right superior good man (7) |
| BATMAN | Forces servant to be a comic character (6) |
| DESPERATEDAN | Hopeless martial artist is a comic character (9,3) |
| BASIL | Herb is a comic character |
| SUPERHERO | Different pusher with same rock as 2 turned up ___ a comic character (9) |
| BUFFO | In opera, a comic character (5) |
| FALSTAFF | A comic character who appears in three of Shakespeare's plays (8) |
| POPEYE | Church leader, you found, is a comic character (6) |
| THOUGHT | Containers for a comic character's internal monologue, literally |
| HARRISBURG | Laugh right before bringing over food entitled man wanted in Pennsylvanian place |
| BAZOOKAGUM | Chewable candy that spawned a comics character named Joe |
| GASQUET | This French player who was given a wild card in the men's singles at the French Open 2025 eventually lost to the tournament runner-up in the second round (7) |
