Clues for the word "SATIRE"
We've had 192 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 306 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Easy crossword on July 16, 2026.
Definition of satire
- a. - A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal.
- a. - Keeness and severity of remark; caustic exposure to reprobation; trenchant wit; sarcasm.
Referring Clues
- Dario Fo forte
- It bites
- Molière metier
- Swiftness?
- Lampoon
- Mad magazine's genre
- Voltaire's metier
- Swift work
- "The Praise of Folly," e.g.
- Orwell's "Animal Farm," e.g.
- Many a Swift work
- Molière's "The Miser," e.g.
- Work of Juvenal
- "Dr. Strangelove," e.g.
- "Gulliver's Travels," e.g.
- "Saturday Night Live" genre
- Swift gift
- "The Colbert Report" and such
- Mad specialty
- Many a Mad Magazine article
- Molière's metier
- Swift vehicle
- "The Daily Show" specialty
- Firesign Theatre skit, e.g.
- Literary ridicule
- Many a "Mad" article
- Biting writing
- Swift piece, perhaps
- "Animal Farm," e.g.
- "The Colbert Report" specialty
- Takeoff
- Story with bite
- "Mad" genre
- Literary spoof
- Biting work
- "Mad" magazine material
- "SNL" specialty
- Juvenal's genre
- Swift genre
- Irreverent work
- Genre of Jonathan Swift
- Parody
- Swift vehicle?
- "SNL" specialty
- Jonathan Swift genre
- Moliere's method
- Moliere's genre
- Biting production
- Sarcastic literature
- "Fahrenheit 451," e.g.
- Colbert or Stewart specialty
- Colbert's specialty
- Comtemptuous piece of writing
- Ridiculing work
- Mad Magazine specialty
- Aristophanes specialty
- "Mad" genre
- "Mad" magazine material
- "The Simpsons" specialty
- "This Is Spinal Tap," e.g.
- Literary style
- Work that ridicules folly
- Swift stuff
- 'SNL' specialty
- Lampoon specialty
- Mocking writing
- Swift specialty
- Jonathan Swift specialty
- Lampoon offering
- Spoof
- 'The Onion' specialty
- Swift writing
- Swift writing
- Literary genre
- Literary device
- Punch ingredient?
- Andy Borowitz's forte
- "Gulliver's Travels", e.g.
- Piece that bites
- Swift means of attack?
- Biting parody
- "South Park" specialty
- Mocking work
- Genre of Orwell's "Animal Farm"
- Ribald humor
- Ricky Gervais' forte
- Much of "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report"
- Sarcastic wit
- "The Colbert Report" stock-in-trade
- Gere of "Gulliver's Travels"
- It may bite
- Provocative comedy
- "Network," for one
- Sarcastic writing
- "Catch-22" or "Don Quixote"
- Comedic takeoff
- Literary works using irony to expose folly
- Biting comedy
- "The Daily Show" device
- Lampoon cousin
- "Dr. Strangelove" or "Borat"
- Jonathan Swift's genre
- Mad magazine's specialty
- Contemptuous writing
- Any of the "Scary Movie" movies
- Device much used in "Huckleberry Finn"
- Genre of many Weird Al songs
- Mockery
- The Onion's genre
- "The Dunciad", e.g.
- "Modern Humorist" genre
- Jonathan Swift's forte?
- Scot's cross, forgetting large work by Martial
- Cross line leaving for take-off
- Lampoon(ery)
- Parody met with anger
- Ridicule can get one in tears, possibly
- Ridicule makes one stare wildly around!
- I stare, disconcerted, at such ridicule
- Swift work met with fury
- Took the seat beside one again, which is ironic
- Burlesque star that is ill-disposed
- Scornful comment on the Day of Wrath
- Pointed humour
- Composer maintains Mahler's 6th is a send-up
- Ridicule met with anger
- It's a possibility concerning caricature
- Sort of entertainment seen as turning weary
- Swift's "A Modest Proposal," e.g.
- "Catch-22," e.g.
- Send up, say, topless waiters for a change
- Holds a tiresome group to ridicule
- Father accepts a time for ridicule
- Funny, it's about ridiculing establishment leaders
- Scorer punched by king - that's funny and tragic
- Wit causing anger at weekend?
- Father received thanks in return for parody
- Philosopher getting hold of Swift's third ironic composition
- Witty language used to convey insults or scorn
- Father's written about a primarily Trollopean literary genre
- Ridicule South African bore
- Jock's cross, forgetting Latin work by Juvenal, say
- Swift's forte
- Onion offering
- Spoofs and such
- "The Simpsons" or "Futurama"
- Essay type
- Tries a new type of comedy
- Mockumentary, e.g.
- Comedy of manners hallmark
- Mockery making one Christian organisation weary
- Christopher Buckley specialty
- HBO's "Veep," e.g.
- Literary criticism of a sort
- Humour posed with fury
- Biting literature
- Genre with bite
- Lampoons and such
- Genre for David and Amy Sedaris
- Biting wit can have one in tears
- Witty way to make tea sir
- .....and I am in floods of tears, which is ironical
- Walking Eagle News specialty
- Irony
- "The weapon of the powerless against the powerful," according to Molly Ivins
- Specialty of Aristophanes
- Literary sarcasm
- "South Park" or "The Onion"
- Genre with social critiques
- The Ig Nobel Prize, e.g.
- Stephen Colbert device
- Genre for The Squeaky Wheel and The Onion
- Ironic and critical comedy
- Genre involving humorous social criticism
- Political humor, often
- Cutting part of The Onion?
- "Don't Look Up" genre
- Much sketch comedy
- ClickHole genre
- Reductress genre
- Sarcasm
- Burlesque
- Form of humor
- Much political humor
- Tries a change of style in humour
- Writer's ploy
- Biting piece
- The Onion's output
- Many a mockumentary
- Cutting stuff
- "The Daily Show" genre
- "Animal Farm" or "The Simpsons"
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Easy - July 16, 2026
- New York Times - July 08, 2026
- Daily Cryptic - June 26, 2026
- Daily American - June 17, 2026
- LA Times - June 15, 2026
- Mirror Daily - May 13, 2026
- LA Times - May 06, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 29, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 22, 2026
- New York Times - April 18, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - April 03, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 26, 2026
- LA Times - March 01, 2026
- Mirror Daily - February 17, 2026
- Daily American - February 03, 2026
- LA Times - January 02, 2026
- New York Times - October 31, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 07, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 19, 2025
- New York Times - August 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 10, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 06, 2025
- Daily American - June 18, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 19, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 07, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 22, 2025
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