Related Clues:

• "___ me with a spoon!"
• One may be running over time
• React to a tongue depressor
• Quick joke
• Kind of gift
• [blech!]
• __ order
• 81 Down preceder, often
• Handkerchief stuffed in the mouth, e.g.
• A muzzle - or a joke
• Stop the mouth with a joke
• Retch at the joke?
• A joke to muffle?
• Humorous anecdote or remark
• A palindromic muzzle