Possible Clues:

• Was cleverer than Ted, going after unacceptable humour
• Worsted openly shown to contain rag
• Old union leader, teased and got the better of
• Got better of fool whose cover is exposed
• Got the better of
• Ass possessed by unpopular journalist beaten
• Got the better of bosun regularly taunted
• Proves shrewder than
• Deceived by greater ingenuity
• Published journalist trapping fool beaten for ingenuity