| LAUGHINGSTOCK | Store of gags - or one that is really ridiculous (8,5) |
| JOKE | Gag or one-liner (4) |
| SILENCES | Gags or muffles (8) |
| SILENCEISGOLDEN | One cracking gags - or saying it's better not to? |
| ONELINERS | Short gags ... or the characters in the 17-, 33- and 39-Across clues? |
| SIGNATURETUNE | Distinctive melody or song associated with a performer, or one that opens/closes a radio or television programme (9,4) |
| SOONERORLATER | Star role - or one that could be eventually |
| UNITED | Word for "allied" or "one" that is found in the names of football/sports teams formed by amalgamation (6) |
| BREAKER | Large type of white-crested wave at sea or one that crashes onto the shore; or, a CB radio user (7) |
| PATCHER | A vessel or one that caulks one (7) |
| ORBITER | Craft that circles or one that attacks (7) |
| MONOTONE | I get on with Rex from Moreton, but unfortunately he does have one of those voices that is really boring (8) |
| HALLUCINATION | See, hear, feel or smell something that is really not present (13) |
| DANGEROUS | Parabuthus is the only scorpion found in South Africa that is really___ |
| ATALL | A type of order that is really tough under any circumstances (2,3) |
| NONSENSICAL | Around clans, none is being really ridiculous |
| SOROSIS | Fruit formed from a group of flowers, such as a pineapple, fig or one that grows on the tree described in 24D (7) |
| NURSERY | Business with small charges, or one that caters for growing needs (7) |
| BANE | Bete noire; something, or one, that causes destruction (4) |
| STABLEMATE | Racehorse's companion in a stall or one that shares the same yard (10) |
