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noun • a community of people smaller than a village • the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy who hoped to avenge the murder of his father • a settlement smaller than a town | ||||||||
| 42% | 4 | What brevity is to wit | ||||||
noun • the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life • a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential • deep feeling or emotion • the human embodiment of something • a secular form of gospel that was a major Black musical genre in the 1960s and 1970s | ||||||||
| 39% | 3 | Brevity is its soul | ||||||
noun • a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter • mental ability • a witty amusing person who makes jokes | ||||||||
Source Of The Saying Brevity Is The Soul Of Wit Crossword Clue
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HAMLET which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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Updated: October 11, 2023
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