| JAPER | One jokes about Father Jack making a comeback |
| KIDNAPS | Steals one's jokes about the rest |
| JEALOUS | Green and keen, Jack making a new start |
| CUSTARD | Perhaps Jack's making a case for just excluding starter and dessert? (7) |
| LINERS | One- -; jokes delivered in a sentence |
| BATTLE | Jack making comeback gets title. I lost contest ... (6) |
| KELLY | Irish actor who played Father Jack Hackett in Father Ted (5,5) |
| FRANK | Irish actor who played Father Jack Hackett in Father Ted (5,5) |
| SCALLYWAG | Rogue element on side, one jokes (9) |
| HOAXER | One jokes over dismissal in personnel department (6) |
| JUBILEES | Anniversaries of Jack making use entertaining old humour (8) |
| CREVASSE | Father Jack, perhaps, embraced by Anglicans, causing split (8) |
| GOULD | Ross and Monica's father Jack in Friends, Elliott ... (5) |
| PARK | Leave Father Jack in the end holding last of liquor |
| GAGS | Chokes on more than one joke |
| PAIGE | ___ Smith, Erinsborough woman who Father Jack Callahan considered giving up his vocation for (5) |
| CONTRITION | "Just another act of apology from Father Jack in the box," said Ted, with great regret! (10) |
| ELLIOTTGOULD | Ocean's Eleven actor who played Monica and Ross's father, Jack Geller, on Friends: 2 wds. |
| DRINK | Father Jack's demand for accompaniment to food in series with Michael Barry and Jilly Goolden (5) |
| LONGAGO | Left less than one joke, nothing else, well in the past (4-3) |
