| SKELTON | Red, actor who played the title role in the Robert Z. Leonard film The Clown (7) |
| LAWNMOWERMAN | 'The --- ---', Brett Leonard film starring Jeff Fahey in the title role (9,3) |
| INFERNO | 2016 action mystery film, the third in the Robert Langdon series (7) |
| HAMELIN | Town featured in the Robert Browning poem, based on a pied piper (7) |
| FACULTY | "The ...", Robert Rodriguez film starring Jordana Brewster as Delilah Profitt (7) |
| HITCHER | 'The Robert Harmon film starring Rutger Hauer (7) |
| HAWKINS | Surname of Jim, protagonist of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island (1883) |
| PIERROT | The clown by the promenade is rubbish (7) |
| MARCEAU | Marcel ---, French 'Bip the Clown' mime in box E (7) |
| BILLYBONES | Retired seaman who dies of a heart attack in the Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island (5,5) |
| BONES | Billy, retired seaman who dies of a heart attack in the Robert Louis Stevenson novel Treasure Island (5) |
| BUFFOON | Sandy has nothing on, the clown! (7) |
| JESSICA | In 2.2, Shylock's daughter hands the "Clown" a letter to deliver to someone, whom she doesn't want her father to know about. What is his daughter's name? |
| REDSKELTON | Actor who played the title role in 1953 film drama The Clown (3,7) |
| RUSHDIE | "Shalimar the Clown" author |
| HAMITUP | Act the clown |
| ANEMONE | Friend of the clown fish |
| KEESHAN | Original Clarabell the Clown player |
| RESTED | Being unfortunately set in the red, actor was out of work (6) |
| GREAT | The Robert Conquest's pioneering work on the Gulag system in the 9 (5,6) |
