Talent for banter
The crossword clue "Talent for banter" is answered by WIT, a 3-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
WIT
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WIT answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for WIT
Every other clue in this collection answered by WIT, most used first.
- Humor - used 67 times, most recently in 2026
- Humorist - used 65 times, most recently in 2026
- Cleverness - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Clever humor - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Clever one - used 24 times, most recently in 2023
- Drollery - used 24 times, most recently in 2022
- Funny fellow - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Sense of humor - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Card - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- Quipster - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
- Clever person - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Clever sort - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Quick thinking - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Repartee - used 9 times, most recently in 2006
- Verbal cleverness - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Ad-libber's asset - used 8 times, most recently in 2017
- Dorothy Parker, for one - used 8 times, most recently in 2007
- Dorothy Parker quality - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Funny person - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Good humor man? - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
- Punster - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Comedian's asset - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Sharp humor - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Ability to amuse - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Jokester - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Mental quickness - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
- To __; namely - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
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