| KISSER | Shower of affection coming out of Barkis - seriously! |
| KISSCAM | Shower of affection? |
| CLARAPEGGOTTY | Character who married Mr Barkis in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield (1850) |
| WESER | River of NW Germany ... in Felixstowe, seriously! (5) |
| INEARNEST | I mean to make a home - seriously! (2,7) |
| STANDUP | Opinion raised - don't take one seriously! (5-2) |
| JOKINGAPART | Girl close to Dalek in space craft - seriously! |
| LASER | It produces an intense light beam - in Bala, seriously! (5) |
| OUTLAWED | Like chewing gum in Singapore or wearing blue jeans in North Korea (seriously!) |
| JOKING | "Don't take what I said so seriously!" |
| FORREAL | The French female admitting mistake, largely shown up a" seriously! (3,4) |
| IMMERSE | Duck is some swimmer, seriously! |
| ITWASAJOKE | "Don't treat that so seriously!" |
| DOG | Palm ___, award for Best Canine Performance during the Cannes Film Festival (seriously!) |
| AGAME | "It's only ___!" ("Don't take it so seriously!") (2 wds.) |
| PAINKILLER | Anodyne needed by father with trendy one who takes life seriously! (10) |
| KRILL | Shrimp-like creatures take life seriously! That's about right (5) |
| SWARM | To climb by gripping with one's hands/feet; a throng of honey bees; a mass of bioluminescent krill, visible from space; a shower of meteors; or, a series of earthquakes (5) |
| DRIFT | A mass of snow or leaves, piled up by the wind; a large spread of daffodils, snowdrops or other flowering plants; a flock of cattle or birds; a heavy shower of rain/sleet; or, loose fluvioglacial or g |
| SWARMS | Dense bodies of flying bees, hence clouds of insects, crowds of people, showers of meteors, sequences of earthquakes or other myriads moving en masse (6) |
