Word that may follow the start of 20-, 25-, 44- or 50-Across Crossword Clue

• What a punch line may end

  New York Times · Monday, December 29, 2025 · 4 letters

• "A guy walks into a bar …" may start one

  New York Times · Monday, January 9, 2023 · 4 letters

• A shaggy dog story is a long one

  New York Times · Wednesday, November 30, 2022 · 4 letters

• "Is this some kind of twisted ___?"

  New York Times · Tuesday, September 6, 2022 · 4 letters

• "Practical" thing

  New York Times · Wednesday, August 24, 2022 · 4 letters

• Cause of a laugh

  New York Times · Monday, May 9, 2022 · 4 letters

• "What a ___!"

  New York Times · Thursday, September 3, 2020 · 4 letters

• Ha-ha

  New York Times · Friday, November 8, 2019 · 4 letters

• Complete embarrassment

  New York Times · Friday, February 2, 2018 · 4 letters

• *Bit of blue humor

  New York Times · Thursday, June 15, 2017 · 4 letters

More clues from this crossword

• 55-Down Actress Gershon
• 56-Down Shirt label name
• 57-Down Mercury and Saturn, but not Uranus
• 58-Across Large diving bird
• 58-Down J.F.K.'s successor
• 59-Across Noted garden site
• 60-Across "My Fair Lady" character
• 61-Across Allied group
• 62-Across It may be put on after a bath
• 63-Across Mister, in Madrid
• 65-Across Speak indistinctly
• 66-Across "Yikes!"