| SORROWFUL | "Even in laughter, the heart is ____" (Proverbs xiv, 13) |
| GOLDEN | Silence is ___, proverb (6) |
| ACHING | "Oh, my heart is ___..." ("Let the River Run" line) |
| IDLE | "Am I vital / If my heart is ___?" (Moses Sumney) |
| DARKEN | "Ashes of laughter, the ghost is clear / Why do the best things always disappear / Like Ophelia / Please ___ my door": The Band |
| MUSIC | "Laughter ... the most civilised ____ in the world" (Peter Ustinov) |
| AUTHORISATION | BCM was told by DW&S in their 2018 directive that the metro was operating the plant "without ..." See no 14. (13) |
| MARDI | "___ Gras Carnival" (1898; one of the 25 movies added to the National Film Registry this year, as announced Dec. 14; 13 of the others herein have asterisked clues) |
| PEAL | Laughter the bell-ringing joke is greeted with? (4) |
| PERISH | "Where there is no vision, the people ___" (Proverbs) (6) |
| HYENA | Long in laughter, he is (5) |
| HOLYROOD | Hold your horses, love: right's missing out in 14 (13) |
| MEDICINE | Nobel Prize category ("Laughter, the Best ___") |
| ISNEAR | "For better is a neighbor that ___...": Proverbs |
| AMAID | "The way of a man with ___": Proverbs |
| RUBIES | "She is more precious than ___": Proverbs 3:15 |
| THESWORD | 'The pen is mightier ___', proverb (4,3,5) |
| THAN | 'The pen is mightier ___', proverb (4,3,5) |
| SLAYBELLES | Leave ball attendees rolling in laughter? |
| GAFFER | Mistake ending in laughter for boss |
