Crossword-Solution: PUNS 4 letters, 124 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word		Anagrams
PUNS	anagram	NUPS, SNUP, SPUN

We have 124 clues for the answer “PUNS”

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"Alice in Wonderland" features	1 answer
"Need an ark? I Noah guy," and others	1 answer
"Queen of denial" and "knight and day"	1 answer
"Sanity clause" and others	1 answer
"Tequila mockingbird" and "absinthe of malice," for two	1 answer
"Tequila mockingbird" and "whiskey business," e.g.	1 answer
"The bicycle collapsed because it was two-tired" and others	1 answer
"The highest form of literature," per Hitchcock	1 answer
"To the person who invented zero: thanks for nothing," and others	1 answer
"You've cat to be kitten me" and others	1 answer
Play on words, often with humorous intent	1 answer
Witty wordplay often found in dad jokes	1 answer
Ad libs of a sort.	1 answer
Bases of many dad jokes	1 answer
Bits of wordplay	1 answer
Calembours	1 answer
Carroll specialties	1 answer
Causes of grins and groans	1 answer
Cerf specialties	1 answer
Cerf's specialty	1 answer
Cleocatra, Purrsephone, and Meowchelle Opawma	1 answer
Clever turns of phrase	1 answer
Conversation stoppers.	1 answer
Conversational gambits.	1 answer
Corny bits of wordplay	1 answer
Ed Wynn-isms.	1 answer
Equivoques	1 answer
Essence of knock-knock jokes	1 answer
Evokers of groans	1 answer
Feeble witticisms	1 answer
Food for a certain glutton	1 answer
Full-groan jokes	1 answer
Fun with words	1 answer
Gramatical witticisms	1 answer
Groan causers	1 answer
Groan elicitors	1 answer
Groan elicitors, often	1 answer
Groan getters	1 answer
Groan inducers	1 answer
Groan-inducing jokes	1 answer
Groaners	1 answer
Groaners, to some	1 answer
Groucho Marx specialties	1 answer
Homophonic high jinks	1 answer
Humorous plays on words	1 answer
Instances of wordplay	1 answer
It's said that they have to be bad to be good	1 answer
Jeux de mots	1 answer
Jokes that lead to groans	1 answer
Jokesters' standbys	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ERAET

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with PUNS (5)

Dry humor, irony, puns, and a mildly flippant attitude are highly valued --- but an underlying seriousness and intelligence are essential.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

The relation of some employment or action; occupied with; as, at engraving; at husbandry; at play; at work; at meat (eating); except at puns.

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

Thomas Hood The man who cloaked his bitterness within This winding-sheet of puns and pleasantries, God never gave to look with common eyes Upon a world of anguish and of sin: His brother was the branded man of Lynn; And there are woven with his jollities The nameless and eternal tragedies That render hope and hopelessness akin.

The Children of the Night Edwin Arlington Robinson 2008

All the way my companions were skylarking, jesting and making puns, and I felt as if a load had been taken off my lungs and spirits, and skylarked with the best of them.

St. Ives Robert Louis Stevenson 2010

The text alluded to is made further impossible because it is based upon the supposition that Christ and His fishermen conversed together in Latin or Greek, even to the extent of making puns in that language.

The Vital Message Arthur Conan Doyle 1996

Quotes with PUNS (3)

Puns are the highest form of literature.

Alfred Hitchcock

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Neil Gaiman

Anyway, my writer gang: they kind of did their comedy apprenticeship with me and, during that period, when they were young and impressionable, I think I infected them with my pun virus. They grew to enjoy puns, think puns, just as much as me. The problem is people don't really like puns any more, so I worry I've rendered the poor fuckers virtually unemployable.

Frank Skinner Frank Skinner on the Road

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 159 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).