| HOAXED | Played a prank |
| COLLEGEFUNNED | MIT played a prank on Yale, say? |
| CONNORO | He played a prank on groom-to-be Toadie Rebecchi (6,1,5) |
| APRILFOOLSDAY | The first to be played a prank on (5,5,3) |
| VAGARI | From Latin for "wander", word for an erratic or unpredictable change; a capricious or eccentric act; a devious excursion; a digression; a fantastic notion; a prank; a ramble; or, a whim (6) |
| RAG | A farthing; a herd of colts; a pithy part of an orange or lemon; a prank; a scrap of cloth one figuratively loses when blowing one's top; or, something contemptuously compared to such a tatter, such a |
| TRICK | Word for an artifice; an illusion or magical feat; or, a prank, such as that played at Hallowe'en unless a householder produces a treat (5) |
| SPOOF | A parody or lampoon; a guessing game involving cards; or, a prank (5) |
| RIG | Word for kit; a ship's tackle; garb; a prank; or, a wanton person (3) |
| KINGPRAWN | For a prank, take a wing and make something tasty as a crowning achievement (4,5) |
| ALBERT | Prince in a can, in a prank |
| TPING | Pulling a prank outside a house |
| ABET | Help a prankster pull a prank |
| APRILFOOL | Any victim of a prank played on the first day of the fourth month (5,4) |
| HOAX | Call some taxis to a house as a prank (4) |
| ROLL | When preceded by 1-A: prank where pop star Astley's most famous song is unexpectedly played ... as just happened to you in this puzzle |
| FREDAINE | Freak freed in a prank played by French |
| WEDGY | Like a chock; sounds like a prank? (5) |
| INPLAY | Employed with a cast as a prank? (2,4) |
| IMPISH | I'm a derogatory comment used in a prank? (6) |
