Literary spoof
The crossword clue "Literary spoof" is answered by SATIRE, a 6-letter entry. Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
SATIRE
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SATIRE answer page.
Used 20 times across 15 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for SATIRE
Every other clue in this collection answered by SATIRE, most used first.
- Lampoon - used 42 times, most recently in 2024
- Mocking work - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- "Gulliver's Travels," e.g. - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
- Parody - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Swift work - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- "SNL" specialty - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- Spoof - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Swift's forte - used 7 times, most recently in 1990
- "The Onion" genre - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- "Gulliver's Travels," for one - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- Literary sarcasm - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Swift specialty - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Swift vehicle - used 6 times, most recently in 2010
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.
- Spoof - PARODY, used 17 times
- Literary alter ego - MRHYDE, used 10 times
- Literary castaway - CRUSOE, used 10 times
- Literary family name - BRONTE, used 9 times
- Literary postscript - EPILOG, used 8 times
- Literary coda - EPILOG, used 7 times
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