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Answer: IRONY

IRONY is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 173 times.

• Humor not for dummies
• Nonliteral humor
• O. Henry specialty
• "The Gift of the Magi" feature
• Certain humor
• Often-missed humor
• Slice of wry?
• Humor with a twist
• It may feature a twist
• "Gulliver's Travels" feature
• Much-misunderstood writing
• 15-Across with a twist
• Swiftian device
• O. Henry device
• Overused humor technique
• Twisted humor
• Literary device
• Stinging surprise
• It may be tragic
• O. Henry literary device
• It may be poetic
• Wry twist
• Double-edged literary device
• Wry toast?
• Something said with the opposite implied
• Swift forte
• Socratic ___
• "The Gift of the Magi" device
• Tongue-in-cheek quality
• Poetic justice
• Satire feature
• Double-edged humor
• Literary twist
• Subtle sarcasm
• O. Henry technique
• Literary device in "The Gift of the Magi"
• It's not to be taken literally
• It may be dramatic
• Socratic ___ (feigned ignorance in a discussion)
• Humorous literary technique
• Sarcasm, e.g.
• Swift strength
• Humorist's tool
• Employment agency layoff, e.g.
• Twist onstage
• Unexpected outcome
• Twist at the end
• O. Henry's forte
• Adolph Coors III's allergy to beer, e.g.
• "Oedipus Rex" literary device
• Swift specialty
• Literary surprise
• Literary sarcasm
• Sardonic literary device
• It features a twist
• O. Henry forte
• Literary technique
• Certain literary device
• Literary style
• A literary incongruity
• Humor with a twist, perhaps
• Dramatic device
• The fire station burned down, e.g.
• Sardonic literary tactic
• Sardonic literary style
• Sardonic humor, e.g.
• Literary incongruity
• Sophocles skill
• Satirist's device
• "Seinfeld" specialty
• Sardonic humor
• Tongue-in-cheek humor
• Vonnegut device
• Device of the wryly humorous
• Feature of many fables
• Twist of fate
• Common literary device
• Socrates' forte
• O. Henry's specialty
• Bitter humor
• Satirist's specialty
• 'Bitter' humor
• Arch writing
• O. Henry's twist
• Sarcastic humor
• Satirist's tool
• Twisted wit
• Wry humor
• "The Gift of the Magi" quality
• It's lost on some people
• Swiftian humor
• What air quotes sometimes indicate
• Twist of a sort
• Twist in a tale
• Device commonly used in "The Twilight Zone"
• Literary device much used by O. Henry
• "The Wizard of Oz" device
• Jonathon Swift's forte
• Dramatic ___
• Paradox
• A fire station burning down, e.g.
• Apt twist of fate, in literature
• "The Twilight Zone" plot device
• Literary technique involving incongruity
• Subtle satire
• Double-edged plot device
• Humor based on contradiction
• Satire, perhaps
• Humor element
• Firehouse catching fire, e.g.
• Twisty writing?
• Form of sarcasm, e.g.
• Writing that features a twist
• Satire
• Sardonic wit
• Subtle twist, in literature
• "Gift of the Magi" device
• Choking on a Life Saver, e.g.
• Subtle twist
• Robbery at a police station, e.g.
• Left-handed humor
• Satire device
• Word from the Greek for "feigned ignorance"
• O. Henry-esque twist
• Writing style with a twist?
• Jane Austen specialty
• O. Henry twist
• Stephen Colbert forte
• Plot twist
• Writing with a wry twist
• Vonnegut literary device
• Wry literary twist
• Ferruginous
• It involves a twist
• Two-sided humor
• It has a twist
• Ferric
• Twist from O. Henry
• Satiric twist
• Twist in O. Henry stories
• Swift quality
• IRS agent committing tax fraud, e.g.
• Sometimes tricky-to-spot humor
• Twist
• Device common on "Seinfeld"
• Cheating on an ethics exam, e.g.
• Jonathan Swift specialty
• Cop committing a crime, e.g.
• Antonym of "earnestness"
• Ungenuine tone
• Dramatic technique
• Sarcastic tone
• It can be dramatic or situational
• Literary effect in O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi"
• O. Henry hallmark
• Proofreader introducing an error, e.g.
• Dramatic literary device
• The fact that the Bible is the most shoplifted book in America, e.g.
• Complaining about social media on Facebook, say
• Dripping with ___ (very sarcastic)
• It can be dramatic
• "Honesty with the volume cranked up," per George Saunders
• "___ is wasted on the stupid": Oscar Wilde
• "The Twilight Zone" specialty
• Dolly Parton losing a Dolly Parton lookalike contest, e.g.
• It might be verbal, dramatic or situational
• "Dramatic" literary device
• Twisted humor?
• "At a time like this, scorching ___, not convincing argument, is needed": Frederick Douglass
• Dramatic ___ (storytelling device)
• "The ___ is not lost on me"
• Hallmark of a typical Greek tragedy
• It might be dramatic or cosmic