Featured clue | 21-down: Person responsible for pain in childbirth, so it’s said
Factoid | 57-down: A typical Impractical Jokers episode is a series of competitive games of dares in which each cast member, or “joker”, receives either a thumbs up or thumbs down for his performance. At the climax, the joker who tallied the most thumbs down is the loser and is thereby subjected to a “punishment”. The games are contrived scenarios in which one joker is challenged to embarrass himself by engaging with unwitting members of the general public, receiving commands from the other jokers who are orchestrating and surveying the bizarre scenario from behind the scenes with covert surveillance equipment.