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Word "CLERIHEW" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person
Examples:
`The president is George W. Bush, Who is happy to sit on his tush, While sending his armies to fight, For anything he thinks is right' is a clerihew

Crossword Clues for CLERIHEW

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Father nearly cut piece of 22 Down writing The Telegraph Cryptic 02 Jul 2025
Short comic biographical verse (8)
Her wiles endlessly intriguing after Cowley's earliest satirical verse
Whimsical mini-poem
Humorous poem style used by W. H. Auden
Comic or satiric verse, consisting of two couplets of metrically irregular lines (8)
Form of comic verse consisting of two couplets containing the name of a famous person (8)
Member of the clergy nearly cut poem (8)
WI lecher (anag.) - short poem about a famous person (8) The Guardian Quick 04 Jul 2024
WI lecher (anag.) a€“ short poem about a famous person (8)
Humorous verse about a person (8)
Middle name of journalist Edmund Bentley who invented a form of comic verse (8)
witty biographical poem
Whimsical biographical poem The Guardian Speedy 20 Nov 2022
Minister briefly cut down to four lines of satire 
Witty lines from church worker pruned by hack The Telegraph Toughie 16 Apr 2021
Humorous bio priest cut and cut
Minister reduced by hack's comic verse
Short comic rhyme The Times Concise 27 Apr 2020
Champ getting to grips with algebraic characters oddly omitted four lines The Telegraph Toughie 05 Feb 2020
Short comic verse The Times Concise 26 Oct 2019
About rent in arrears, perhaps to one's ears, a type of clue that's somewhat new
Short humorous poem
Form of verse member of the clergy abridged, then cut The Telegraph Cryptic 25 Sep 2018
Lines of retired setters sign up 50 to support Cuba
Minister of religion caught out, having cut verse
Holy man, finishing early, cut verse
… and another almost cut bit of witty verse
Edmund C Bentley, for instance mocked gently; Vivaldi, when cut, cut again
Form of comic verse member of the clergy abridged, then cut
Verse minister cut and cut again
'George the Third/ Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder/ At so grotesque a blunder.', for example The Guardian Quick 29 Apr 2016
Priest almost cut short poem
Short priest cut humorous poem The Telegraph Toughie 03 Nov 2015
Verse minister cut and cut again
Scheme of 26-29 Down
Four-line verse
Funny four-line poem
Verse cut by priest left unfinished
Form of light verse
Type of light-verse quatrain
Four-line biographical poem
Pseudo-biographical verse, originated by Edmund Bentley.
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