The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ROAST which also is the latest solution we found used in New York Times in 2024.
Comedic takedown crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| ROAST | 100 % | 5 |
Why may ROAST be the right solution?
The answer to "Comedic takedown" is "ROAST" because a roast is a form of comedy where a person is humorously criticized or made fun of in a playful and light-hearted manner.
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Crossword Answer definitions
ROAST noun- A cut of meat suited to roasting
- A meal consisting of roast foods.
- The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
- A comical event, originally fraternal, where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised by sarcasm and jokes.
- To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance.
- To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
- To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat
- To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
- To admonish someone vigorously
- To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
- To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
- Having been cooked by roasting.
- Subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized.
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