| CHICO | Nickname of the US comedian born Leonard Marx in 1887 (5) |
| LENNY | Stage name of the US standup comedian born Leonard Alfred Schneider (5,5) |
| BRUCE | Stage name of the US standup comedian born Leonard Alfred Schneider (5,5) |
| ZEPPO | Adopted name of the comedic actor born Herbert Manfred Marx in 1901 (5) |
| SPIKE | Nickname of the US film director and producer Shelton Jackson Lee (5) |
| BURNS | George, US comedian born Nathan Birnbaum who died in 1996 (5) |
| BENNY | Jack ___, US comedian born Benjamin Kubelsky who died in 1974 (5) |
| RACES | "I haven't seen so much mudslinging since the last election!" exclaimed Groucho Marx in A Day At The ... |
| CHICOMARX | US comedian born in 1887 who usually sported a Tyrolean hat (5,4) |
| LEACH | Bernard, potter born in Hong Kong in 1887 (5) |
| FOGGYBOTTOM | Nickname of the US State Department, from the river-side area of Washington in which it is headquartered (5,6) |
| PETRI | Julius Richard ___ (1852-1921), German bacteriologist who devised a glass container for the culture of microorganisms in 1887 (5) |
| PALMETTO | Nickname of the US state of South Carolina, The ... State |
| BILLYTHEKID | Nickname of the US outlaw (1859-81) (5,3,3) |
| HOOSIER | Nickname of the US state of Indiana (7) |
| SINBAD | US comedian born David Adkins whose roles have included Myron Larabee in 1996 family film Jingle All the Way (6) |
| GOP | Nickname of the US Republican Party. (1,1,1) |
| SCARFACE | Nickname of the US gangster, Al Capone (8) |
| VINEGAR | Nickname of the US general Joseph Stilwell (7,3) |
| JOE | Nickname of the US general Joseph Stilwell (7,3) |
