Related Clues:

• Clever sort
• Literary surprise
• Sardonic literary tactic
• Mother __
• Satire, perhaps
• Adolph Coors III's allergy to beer, e.g.
• One-liner producer
• Dramatic device
• Mental ability
• Swift quality
• Wry humor
• Comic's asset
• "Oedipus Rex" literary device
• 'Educated insolence,' according to Aristotle
• Wisecracker