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Answer for the clue "Puns and such ", 8 letters:
wordplay

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Wordplay is a film website created in 1997 by screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio . It was one of the first websites run by professional film writers with the goal of sharing the techniques of their craft. At the time, Elliott and Rossio had only ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her" [syn: pun , punning , paronomasia ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also word-play , 1855; see word (n.) + play (v).

Usage examples of wordplay.

Then Mortimer said something maddeningly oblique, and Nerita replied with the same off-center mystification, and Mein once more was plunged into the river of their easy dancing wordplay, down into it, down and down and down, and as he struggled to keep from drowning, as he fought to comprehend their interchanges, he never once looked toward the place where Sybille sat, not even once, and congratulated himself on having accomplished that much at least in his masquerade.

His wordplays in Scripture are fascinating, and they are concentrated in His letter to the seven churches.

His fluency in Chyurda exceeded my own, and at times I was hard pressed to follow the conversation, while half of the Fool's wordplays escaped me.

His fluency in Chyurda exceeded my own, and at times I was hard pressed to follow the conversation, while half of the Fool’s wordplays escaped me.