Answer: SATIRE
SATIRE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 141 times.
Referring Clues:
- Dario Fo forte
 - It bites
 - Molière metier
 - Swiftness?
 - Lampoon
 - Mad magazine's genre
 - Voltaire's metier
 - Swift work
 - "The Praise of Folly," e.g.
 - Orwell's "Animal Farm," e.g.
 - Many a Swift work
 - Molière's "The Miser," e.g.
 - Work of Juvenal
 - "Dr. Strangelove," e.g.
 - "Gulliver's Travels," e.g.
 - "Saturday Night Live" genre
 - Swift gift
 - "The Colbert Report" and such
 - Mad specialty
 - Many a Mad Magazine article
 - Molière's metier
 - Swift vehicle
 - "The Daily Show" specialty
 - Firesign Theatre skit, e.g.
 - Literary ridicule
 - Many a "Mad" article
 - Biting writing
 - Swift piece, perhaps
 - "Animal Farm," e.g.
 - "The Colbert Report" specialty
 - Takeoff
 - Story with bite
 - ''Mad'' genre
 - Literary spoof
 - Biting work
 - ''Mad'' magazine material
 - ''SNL'' specialty
 - Juvenal's genre
 - Swift genre
 - Irreverent work
 - Genre of Jonathan Swift
 - Parody
 - Swift vehicle?
 - "SNL" specialty
 - Jonathan Swift genre
 - Moliere's method
 - Moliere's genre
 - Biting production
 - Sarcastic literature
 - "Fahrenheit 451," e.g.
 - Colbert or Stewart specialty
 - Colbert's specialty
 - Comtemptuous piece of writing
 - Ridiculing work
 - Mad Magazine specialty
 - Aristophanes specialty
 - "Mad" genre
 - "Mad" magazine material
 - "The Simpsons" specialty
 - "This Is Spinal Tap," e.g.
 - Literary style
 - Work that ridicules folly
 - Swift stuff
 - 'SNL' specialty
 - Lampoon specialty
 - Mocking writing
 - Swift specialty
 - Jonathan Swift specialty
 - Lampoon offering
 - Spoof
 - 'The Onion' specialty
 - Swift writing
 - Swift writing
 - Literary genre
 - Literary device
 - Punch ingredient?
 - Andy Borowitz's forte
 - "Gulliver's Travels", e.g.
 - Piece that bites
 - Swift means of attack?
 - Biting parody
 - "South Park" specialty
 - Mocking work
 - Genre of Orwell's "Animal Farm"
 - Ribald humor
 - Ricky Gervais' forte
 - Much of "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report"
 - Sarcastic wit
 - "The Colbert Report" stock-in-trade
 - Gere of "Gulliver's Travels"
 - It may bite
 - Provocative comedy
 - "Network," for one
 - Sarcastic writing
 - "Catch-22" or "Don Quixote"
 - Comedic takeoff
 - Literary works using irony to expose folly
 - Biting comedy
 - "The Daily Show" device
 - Lampoon cousin
 - "Dr. Strangelove" or "Borat"
 - Jonathan Swift's genre
 - Mad magazine's specialty
 - Contemptuous writing
 - Any of the "Scary Movie" movies
 - Device much used in "Huckleberry Finn"
 - Genre of many Weird Al songs
 - Mockery
 - The Onion's genre
 - Onion offering
 - Spoofs and such
 - "The Simpsons" or "Futurama"
 - Mockumentary, e.g.
 - Biting drama
 - HBO's "Veep," e.g.
 - Literary criticism of a sort
 - Biting literature
 - Sarcastic writting
 - Genre with bite
 - Lampoons and such
 - Genre for David and Amy Sedaris
 - Walking Eagle News specialty
 - "The weapon of the powerless against the powerful," according to Molly Ivins
 - Specialty of Aristophanes
 - "South Park" or "The Onion"
 - Genre with social critiques
 - The Ig Nobel Prize, e.g.
 - Stephen Colbert device
 - Genre for The Squeaky Wheel and The Onion
 - Ironic and critical comedy
 - Genre involving humorous social criticism
 - Political humor, often
 - Cutting part of The Onion?
 - "Don't Look Up" genre
 - Much sketch comedy
 - ClickHole genre
 - Reductress genre
 - Burlesque
 - Much political humor
 - Biting piece
 - The Onion's output
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - October 31, 2025
 - New York Times - August 06, 2025
 - LA Times - August 16, 2024
 - USA Today - April 15, 2024
 - LA Times - March 02, 2024
 - USA Today - February 13, 2024
 - USA Today - February 01, 2024
 - New York Times - December 03, 2023
 - USA Today - September 21, 2023
 - New York Times - April 30, 2023
 - LA Times - March 28, 2023
 - USA Today - February 03, 2023
 - USA Today - January 16, 2023
 - USA Today - April 13, 2022
 - LA Times - March 07, 2022
 - LA Times - January 14, 2022
 - LA Times - September 04, 2021
 - USA Today - August 18, 2021
 - Universal - April 28, 2021
 - New York Times - February 20, 2021
 
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