| GRIMALDI | Sinister gangster initially delighted one, appearing as clown |
| ONWITHTHEMOTLEY | They won't let him start to organise fancy dress as clown |
| HOODOOS | Gangster, initially offensive, often swearing, curses (7) |
| GROTTO | Gangster initially taking rubbish to cave |
| JOKER | 2019 film starring Joaquin Phoenix as clown Arthur Fleck (5) |
| GLADIATOR | Fighter delighted one on a rocky peak (9) |
| HIDALGO | House in which, delighted, one is put up by foreign gentleman |
| HIDDEN | I had initially delighted in female's embrace behind closed doors |
| STEVIEWONDER | Rolling Stone review initially delighted musician (6,6) |
| SMILER | Runner finishing second is a delighted one (6) |
| SENTIN | Dispatched, as clowns |
| CIRCUS | Show with performers such as clowns and acrobats that takes place in a Big Top (6) |
| ZANY | Word, from a stock name of comic servants acting as clowns in the commedia dell'arte, for amusingly bizarre, daft, eccentric or wacky (4) |
| METEORS | Also known as shooting stars, bodies appearing as streaks of light in the night sky as they enter Earth's atmosphere (7) |
| NINETEEN | Ryan Moloney has _ episodes of Neighbours, as well as appearing as Toadie (8) |
| MASON | Mother's appearing as one wearing an apron (5) |
| ISIS | One little sibling appearing as a goddess (4) |
| SISKIN | Bird appearing as one's sitting in hide (6) |
| JACKAL | Sailor most of all appearing as one late to the feast (6) |
| DRAMATISATIONS | Arrangements for those appearing as actors and as imitators possibly (14) |
