| TRINCULO | The king's jester in 'The Tempest' (8) |
| YORICK | King's jester in the Shakespeare play Hamlet (6) |
| CLOWNING | Joking jester in centre of Wigan (8) |
| BUFFOON | Jester in the nude with nothing on (7) |
| PROSPERO | The rightful Duke of Milan in The Tempest (8) |
| NOONTIDE | "I have be-dimmed / The ____ sun" (Prospero in The Tempest) |
| STEPHANO | Butler of King Alonso in The Tempest (8) |
| SIRJOHNBETJEMAN | Poet (Her Majesty's jester) in banjo performance (3,4,8) |
| FESTE | Name of the jester in Twelfth Night (5) |
| SEA | Alluded to in the stanza "full fathom five" in The Tempest, any one of the saline "mares" forming the oceans; a great wave; the tide; or, the maritime career of a sailor (3) |
| DANNYKAYE | Comic actor who starred as The Court Jester in a 1956 film (5,4) |
| HARLEQUIN | Jester in his first equal break, getting right at home (9) |
| JOKER | Jester in a pack of cards |
| RIGOLETTO | Hunchbacked court jester in a Verdi opera (9) |
| TOUCHSTONE | Jester in Shakespeare's As You Like It (10) |
| COURTFOOL | Another name for a jester in a royal household (5,4) |
| TUNIS | It was a Roman city on the north coast of Africa, near the site of ancient Carthage. It was occupied by the Germans in 1942 and liberated by Allied troops in 1943. In The Tempest (act 2, scene 1), Seb |
| MILAN | It is the capital of the region of Lombardy (Lombardia) in northern Italy. It is a leading financial centre and the most prosperous manufacturing and commercial city of Italy. In The Tempest (act 1, s |
| MIRANDA | A character in The Tempest; a moon orbiting the seventh planet from the Sun; or, a British sitcom starring a comedienne of the same name (7) |
| ARIEL | Summoner of the tempest in "The Tempest" |
