Ironically humorous
The crossword clue "Ironically humorous" is answered by WRY, a 3-letter entry. Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
WRY
3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WRY answer page.
Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1970. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for WRY
Every other clue in this collection answered by WRY, most used first.
- Sardonic - used 62 times, most recently in 2026
- Like some humor - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Twisted - used 35 times, most recently in 2026
- Dryly humorous - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Droll - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Ironic - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Ironically funny - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Crooked - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
- Dryly funny - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Twisted, as humor - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
- Distorted - used 10 times, most recently in 2010
- Tongue-in-cheek - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Dryly amusing - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Not straight - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
- Like some smiles - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Bitterly amusing - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Kind of humor - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Like some grins - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Like some senses of humor - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Twistedly funny - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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.
- Humorous fellow - WAG, used 6 times
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