Related Clues:

• Literary surprise
• Machinate
• Sardonic literary tactic
• Building site
• Satire, perhaps
• Adolph Coors III's allergy to beer, e.g.
• Dramatic device
• Swift quality
• Conspiracy
• Wry humor
• "Oedipus Rex" literary device
• Whodunit's essence
• Stinging surprise
• Humor with a twist, perhaps
• Mark on a map