- PUNS
- Cleocatra, Purrsephone, and Meowchelle Opawma
- Wordplays
- Some wordplay
- Jokes that lead to groans
- Wordplay
- Paronomastic phrases
- Plays on words
- Some puzzle clues
- Bits of wordplay
- This puzzle's theme entries, e.g.
- It's said that they have to be bad to be good
- Ogden Nash's wordplay
- Groan elicitors
- Many crossword puzzle themes
- They may cause groans
- They may make your eyes roll
- Paronomastic collection
- Groan inducers
- Many Groucho Marx quips
- Witty bits
- Fun with words
- Most knock-knock joke punch lines
- Groaners
- They often evoke groaning and eye-rolling
- Food for a certain glutton
- Verbal groaners
- Some crossword clues
- Causes of grins and groans
- Some George Carlin jokes
- Alice in Wonderland features
- Tequila mockingbird and "absinthe of malice," for two
- Many corny jokes
- Knock-knock joke punchlines
- Cerf's specialty
- Some 50 Across
- Essence of knock-knock jokes
- Clever turns of phrase
- Groaners, to some
- Many hair-salon names
- The highest form of literature, per Hitchcock
- Bits of wit
- Many names of hair salons
- Ogden Nash specialty
- Ed Wynn-isms.
- Verbal quibbles.
- Conversation stoppers.
- Wit with words.
- Jokes of a sort.
- Quips of a sort.
- Witticisms of a sort.
- Witty sayings.
- Ad libs of a sort.
- 80 Down and others.
- Conversational gambits.
- Cerf specialties
- Calembours
- Mots of a sort
- Jokesters' standbys
- Some of Benny Hill's offerings
- Evokers of groans
- Jeux de mots
- Puzzle clues, sometimes
- Groucho Marx specialties
- Groan causers
- Sanity clause and others
- Wits' bits
- Many conundrums have them
- Some Groucho Marx humor
- Salon names like Scissors Palace and Curl Up & Dye
- What crossword clues with question marks often are
- The salon names To Dye For and Best Little Hairhouse (both real!), e.g.
- Need an ark? I Noah guy, and others
- Queen of denial and "knight and day"
- They're *supposed* to be corny...
- They often elicit groans
- To the person who invented zero: thanks for nothing, and others
- Groan elicitors, often
- Several are in this puzzle
- You'll find some in this puzzle
- Witticisms
- Full-groan jokes
- Knock-knock jokes, essentially
- Wordplay-based jokes
- Humorous plays on words
- The worst ones are often the best
- Tequila mockingbird and "whiskey business," e.g.
- The bicycle collapsed because it was two-tired and others
- Dad jokes, often
- Many dad jokes
- 20 Across, 38 Across, and 52 Across
- Feeble witticisms
- Plays, linguistically
- Groan-inducing jokes
- Much Groucho humor
- Much "dad humor"
- Many pub quiz team names
- Wordplayer's humor
- Nash output
- You've cat to be kitten me and others
- Kitten Bowl names like Catrick Meowhomes and Joe Montuna, e.g.
- Homophonic high jinks
- Staple of Ogden Nash poems
- Wilde witticisms, often
- Bases of many dad jokes
- They may elicit groans
