| COMICRELIEF | Jester's emotion after the king's laughter? |
| EXPATGANG | Sudden emotion after old flame round at middle-age emigrants' group (5,4) |
| GREETING | A way to convey emotion after one left tragic designer (8,5) |
| CARDS | A way to convey emotion after one left tragic designer (8,5) |
| JUPITER | Named after the king of the gods in Roman mythology, the largest planet in our solar system (7) |
| OBERON | Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, moon of Uranus named after the king of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream (6) |
| OFFASDYKE | Earthwork that runs along some of the England-wales border, named after the King of Mercia 757-796 (5,4) |
| CEPHEUS | Constellation in the northern hemisphere named after the King of Ethiopia in Greek mythology (7) |
| RISHI | Revered man is given greeting after the king |
| KNAVISH | Tricky pieces vanish after the king (7) |
| SPUTNIK | Invest in a film after the king and knight trade places to get a Russian satellite (7) |
| ESTERS | Jesters lose the first one in such compounds (6) |
| CLOWNS | Word originally for unsophisticated country people or rustics, later fools, jesters or the circus buffoons feared by coulrophobics (6) |
| BAUBLE | From the Old French for "child's toy", a showy trinket or trifling piece of finery; a round shiny glass ornament for a Christmas tree; or, a jester's sceptre in the form of a head surmounted on a stic |
| BAUBLES | From Old French for "child's toys", "playthings" or "trinkets", jesters' batons in the form of comic or grotesque heads on sticks; shiny ornaments hung on Christmas trees; or, trivial matters/pieces o |
| KAYE | Actor Danny, who was both king of jesters and jester of kings (4) |
| SHEEPOFFOOLS | Jesters' bighorns? |
| OFT | "Jesters do ___ prove prophets": "King Lear" |
| MARXBROTHERS | Verbally grades stock with Queen's old jesters (4,8) |
| MENZIES | Fellow jesters disowning one Scottish name (7) |
