Historical clue formulations

• Intelligent humor — 2026-04-26
• Wag — 2026-03-26
• Clever sort — 2025-10-12
• Card — 2025-06-18
• "Biting" characteristic — 2025-03-09
• Cleverness — 2025-01-30
• Clever humor — 2025-01-20
• Cleverness — 2024-12-23
• Dorothy Parker quality — 2024-01-10
• Punnery, e.g. — 2023-10-14
• Wilde thing — 2023-03-25
• "The salt of conversation, not the food," per William Hazlitt — 2023-03-10
• Cleverness — 2023-01-10
• It might be dry or biting — 2022-11-05
• Punster — 2022-09-14
• Essence of a good roast — 2022-06-16
• Drollery — 2022-04-27
• A pun is said to be the lowest form of this — 2021-08-03
• "___ has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words": Dorothy Parker — 2021-04-17
• Card — 2021-02-20
• Humor — 2020-09-14
• Jokester — 2019-08-19
• Brevity is said to be the soul of it — 2019-06-24
• Romeo's was "a most sharp sauce," per Shakespeare — 2018-11-09
• "There's many a man hath more hair than ___": Shak. — 2018-02-14
• Quick thinking — 2017-10-22
• Mark Twain, notably — 2016-12-20
• Card — 2016-09-17
• Jokester — 2016-06-01
• "Few love it unless in themselves," per Lord Chesterfield — 2016-05-19
• "___ and wisdom are like the seven stars, seldom seen together": Thomas Fuller — 2015-06-28
• Romeo's was "a most sharp sauce" — 2014-12-12
• Native ___ — 2014-12-07
• What "many a man hath more hair than," in Shakespeare — 2014-12-05
• It can be dry or sparkling — 2014-11-21
• Tina Fey display — 2014-11-18
• Wordplay, e.g. — 2014-08-14
• Cleverness — 2014-07-10
• "Well-bred insolence," per Aristotle — 2014-06-12
• Jon Stewart display — 2014-05-08
• Card — 2013-11-21
• Cleverness — 2013-03-03
• Card — 2012-07-29
• A lively person may have a sparkling one — 2012-04-09
• Punster — 2010-10-07
• Wordplay, e.g. — 2010-10-06
• Swift gift — 2010-09-10
• Punning and such — 2008-10-20
• Jon Stewart asset — 2008-03-06
• ___ and wisdom — 2007-09-03