Bitter humor
The crossword clue "Bitter humor" is answered by IRONY, a 5-letter entry. Used 18 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
IRONY
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IRONY answer page.
Used 18 times across 13 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for IRONY
Every other clue in this collection answered by IRONY, most used first.
- Literary twist - used 58 times, most recently in 2026
- Literary device - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
- O. Henry specialty - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- O. Henry device - used 21 times, most recently in 2018
- O. Henry's specialty - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Subtle sarcasm - used 13 times, most recently in 2014
- Wry twist - used 12 times, most recently in 2023
- Humor with a twist - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Sarcasm. - used 11 times, most recently in 1999
- Dramatic device - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Tongue-in-cheek humor - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Wry humor - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Swift specialty - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Double-edged literary device - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
- Slice of wry? - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Twisted humor - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Device of the wryly humorous - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- O. Henry technique - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Sardonic literary style - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Satirist's tool - used 6 times, most recently in 2018
- Subtle twist - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
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.
- Bitter - ACRID, used 114 times
- Bitter - ACERB, used 69 times
- Bitter-tasting - ACRID, used 28 times
- Bitter drug - ALOES, used 25 times
- Bitter-tasting - ACERB, used 21 times
- Bitter-__ (diehard) - ENDER, used 18 times
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