Whimsical
The crossword clue "Whimsical" is answered by DROLL, a 5-letter entry. Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 10 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DROLL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DROLL answer page.
Used 15 times across 12 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 10 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.
- CAPRICIOUS (1 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
- Wryly amusing - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Whimsically humorous - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
- Dryly funny - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- 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
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