Dryly funny

The answer

DROLL

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DROLL answer page.

Used 10 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2013. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other answers for this clue

The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.

• WRY (11 uses in xd)

Other clues for DROLL

Every other clue in this collection answered by DROLL, most used first.

• Oddly amusing - used 25 times, most recently in 2017
• Waggish - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Dryly amusing - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Whimsical - used 15 times, most recently in 2015
• Wryly amusing - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Whimsically humorous - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Dryly humorous - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Amusing - used 8 times, most recently in 1998
• Whimsically funny - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Wry - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Comical - used 6 times, most recently in 2022

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• "Funny Girl" composer - STYNE, used 40 times
• "Funny Girl" composer Jule - STYNE, used 21 times
• Funny business - HUMOR, used 18 times
• Funny Anne - MEARA, used 17 times
• "Don't get any funny ___!" - IDEAS, used 16 times
• Very funny people - RIOTS, used 16 times

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