| FELLFLAT | Deadly accommodation didn't strike anyone as a joke |
| SCABBARD | One who didn't strike Shakespeare as a sword carrier (8) |
| MISSED | Didn't strike when there was a female editor (6) |
| GOTAHIT | Didn't strike out, say |
| ASTRODOME | Hopefully speakers didn't strike out at the 1992 Republic convention, held in this Houston Stadium |
| JAPE | Magistrate accepts a first edition as a joke (4) |
| GET | Appreciate, as a joke or a person |
| PUNCTUAL | As a joke, created a cult ? and just in time (8) |
| INGEST | Scoff as a joke is delivered by a dictator |
| NIC | Cage digitally inserted into many a movie as a joke nowadays |
| PULLONESLEG | What a torturer might do, as a joke? (4,4,3) |
| PHEASANTRY | Jumble sale held in a food store as a joke? (10) |
| LEGPULL | As a joke, giving a little session on the rack to? |
| SHAGGY | Long as a joke about a canine? (6) |
| SALLY | Name given to a girl as a joke |
| CELESTA | Elect, as a joke, a Tchaikovsky keyboard (7) |
| PUNCTURE | As a joke, roughly cut, again, a hole in (8) |
| LAND | Get a good reception, as a joke |
| PUNCH | A blow, as a joke, to the top of the chin (5) |
| CRACKPOT | As a joke, taking a drug is crazy (8) |
