| JAPE | Practical joke or jest (4) |
| IOCUM | A joke or jest (acc. sing.) |
| HOAX | A practical joke or deception (4) |
| LEGPULL | Practical joke or stage attraction? (3-4) |
| PRANK | A wicked malicious act or mad frolic of the past, but a playful trick, practical joke or other piece of harmless mischief of today (5) |
| PACT | From "deed, exploit", word for an idle tale first, later a joke or witticism; a taunt; an object of derision; or, fun (4) |
| JEST | Witticism, joke or pleasantry (4) |
| CAJOLE | Patrick isn't part of practical joke or sweet talk (6) |
| TOOFAR | How a practical joke or a subway train may be taken |
| STER | Suffix with joke or trick |
| GAGS | Jokes or funny stories (4) |
| COD | Word for a chap or fellow; a cushion or pillow; a gadoid food-fish; a hoax or jest; a pea husk; or, nonsense (3) |
| DROLLERY | Word for a puppet show or comic picture; a jest, joke or funny story; badinage or banter; or, buffoonery, comedy, humour etc generally (8) |
| SERGEANTMAJOR | Manager, or jest about him being a senior NCO (8-5) |
| GAG | Piece of cloth thrust into or held over the mouth to prevent speaking or crying out / joke or comic scene |
| TOPPER | A good sort; a stovepipe or silk hat; a mattress cover; or, a joke or remark that caps the one before (6) |
| BAR | Scots word for a joke or an amusing story; or, a cocktail lounge, gold ingot, heating component in an electric fire, oblong block of chocolate or a pub counter (3) |
| PLEASANTRY | An often weather-based agreeable comment or sweet nothing for civility's sake; or, a joke or facetious jape (10) |
| BIT | Joke, or fell for a joke |
| CHESTNUT | Conker-like fruit of a tree in the genus Castanea; an old joke; or, an auburn or reddish-brown-like colour of a horse's coat (8) |
