| DANNYKAYE | Comic actor who starred as The Court Jester in a 1956 film (5,4) |
| RIGOLETTO | Hunchbacked court jester in a Verdi opera (9) |
| PORTCULLIS | It drops in the castle gateway as the court spill out (10) |
| REDSEA | Site with an important part in a 1956 film? |
| RODAN | Tokyo trasher, in a 1956 film |
| SIDCAESER | Comic actor who starred in 1963 film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (3,6) |
| SIDCAESAR | Comic actor who starred in 1963 film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World |
| COURTFOOL | Another name for a jester in a royal household (5,4) |
| RIKMAYALL | Comic actor who starred alongside Ade Edmondson in the TV series The Young Ones, Filthy Rich & Catflap and Bottom |
| CONQUEROR | The ____ was a 1956 film in which John Wayne played Genghis Khan |
| HARLEQUIN | Jester in a diamond patterned costume (9) |
| CABALLERO | Cesar Romero once starred as "The Gay ___" |
| VESSEL | In The Court Jester, Danny Kaye finally had to remember that, "The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the ... with the pestle has the brew that is true" |
| HICKSON | Actress who starred as the title role in the television series Miss Marple (7) |
| BAKER | Actor who starred as the fourth incarnation of the Doctor and later narrated Little Britain (5) |
| SJS | Initials-sharers of the actress who starred as the mom on "The Partridge Family" |
| GIELGUD | Actor who starred as the title character in Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books (7) |
| SWINTON | Tilda -; actress who starred as the White Witch in the Chronicles of Narnia films (7) |
| LOLA | Actress Kirke who starred as the oboist Hailey Rutledge on "Mozart in the Jungle" |
| ERIC | Aussie actor who starred as the Hulk in 2003, _ Bana (4) |
