| IRONIST | Person satirising press one way |
| LAMPOONER | One satirising plan more ludicrously, with nothing in it (9) |
| BLEAKHOUSE | Novel satirising the old court of Chancery (5,5) |
| SENDINGUP | Satirising (7,2) |
| ELMERGANTRY | Sinclair Lewis novel satirising evangelism, filmed in 1960 |
| TARTUFFE | MoliA¨re play satirising religious hypocrites (8) |
| PARODYING | Satirising staff in settlement (9) |
| PRETENSIONS | Shows one makes to press one tin out (11) |
| RESPONSES | Another way to press one's comebacks (9) |
| THELOVEDONE | Evelyn Waugh novel satirising the American funeral industry (3,5,3) |
| SCOOP | 1938 Evelyn Waugh novel, satirising foreign correspondents in Ethiopia (5) |
| ALEC | ____ Baldwin, actor noted for satirising Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live (4) |
| CLOCHEMERLE | Novel by Gabriel Chevallier satirising 1920s Beaujolais village life (11) |
| LODGE | David ____, who died on New Years Day, wrote novels satirising academic life |
| POPPY | Stage name of US performance artist Moriah Pereira, known for satirising internet culture (5) |
| RESPONSE | Press one, in a way, to make a reply (8) |
| IRONICAL | Press one to state conclusion involving a paradox (8) |
| IRON | Press one, or raise indefinite number (4) |
| IRONIC | Press one hundred? That's sardonic! (6) |
| SURGEON | After brief second, press 'one' endlessly for operator (7) |