Clowning Around

Actor known for playing Randy Taylor on Home Improvement and voicing several 90s Disney characters, to fans

Carol Hesse's toy clown co-star on BBC's Test Card F, who has appeared on television for a total of 70,000 hours (or eight years)

A stack of reference books that proclaim themselves to be "the definitive record of the English language" (Abbr.)

Magazine publishing company that merged with Warner Brothers in 1990

Corporation behind abominations like "Buffaranch" and "Mayochup"

Naval boat attacked by Al-Qaeda terrorists in 2000

Temporary residency for fantasy protagonists and crossword lovers

Cobra _____, Karate Kid spinoff that jumped from YouTube to Netflix

Flu shot (Abbr.)

County divisions (Abbr.)

Fictional clown associated with a mediocre fast food burger-chain

Metric I'm attempting to boost by mentioning COVID, Ukraine, Hurricane Ian, and Queen Elizabeth in this clue

Lethal nerve gas used by Aum Shinrikyo cultists in a 1995 attack on the Tokyo subway

Sad clown from famed opera Pagliacci

Music.ly replacement Tik _____

War-torn country in Western Asia (and a multiplayer map in Call of Duty: Black Ops II)

"The World's Most Famous Clown," whose name became a slangy insult

The TV screen on the back of a plane seat, e.g.

Image format that often comes w/ a transparent background

"Oh, don't be so _____-is-me, get a hold of yourself!"

Amsterdam migrant collective (Abbr.)

Telugu cinema star who also served as Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (Abbr.)

Nightfall, to Shakespeare

In a famous psychological experiment, children who saw adults beat up this clown chose to do the same when left in a room with him

It comes from a fountain, according to legend

Met Gala locale (Abbr.)

Peace, in Swahili

Ice Cube's birth name (and also his kid's birth name)

Grandmother, familiarly

_____ McDonald, real-life clown associated with a mediocre fast-food burger chain

In the time of chimpanzees, he was a monkey

Natl. Park Service program that pays kids to work on federal lands

"I'm cooking up in the _____ like I'm Rick and Morty"

Altar in the stars

Furry-on-furry fucking

Actor Ramon _____

How Taylor Swift promises to live after her private flight controversy last summer?

Major for English students worried

Data format often used for podcast archives or news aggregators

Holiday associated with Ryan Seacrest (Abbr.)

Serial-killing clown with a Sufjan Stevens song named after him

Growths that occur during adolescence

Animated "reality" show on Cartoon Network

Heat meas.

Windows 8 famously had a terrible one of these (Plural, Abbr.)

Shits (Abbr.)

Popular breakfast sandwich (Abbr.)

Silent comic strip by Mark Tatulli

Sign up to kill people for your country

A killer always returns here

Fatal Fury and KoF publishers

Mononymous Fishmans producer

"_____ beginning to look a lot Christmas"

Old-school IMing system still used by 4chan admins

Clown supervillain beloved by incels

Video game NPC that can't exit a pool without a ladder

Crimson Tide Uni's locale south of Huntsville

If it's yellow, do NOT eat it

Don't get in one of these trying to solve this crossword

This chocolate drink is calling to me?

What you might call a pub that just opened up

Affirm your heterosexuality, but with a cockney accent?

_____wise, clown who also killed kids but didn't do it for real so Sufjan Stevens didn't write a song about him

Self-imposed rule that Oulipian author Georges Perec used to write "A Void," a novel about a missing man named Anton Vowl

"I can flip _____ dime"

This port comes in A and C varieties, and a B variety that nobody uses

Don't speak _____ of the dead

Acronym between two different names for one person

2010s fad dance

Pen and lighter brand

Lauderdale and Knox, for a few (Abbr.)

AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!, IN SHEET MUSIC (ABBR.)

Disdain

Painful syllable in Monty Python and the Holy Grail

H.S. Diploma substitute

Crosswordese unit of time that equates to roughly one billion years