Crossword clues for parodies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
parody \par"o*dy\ (p[a^]r"[-o]*d[y^]), n.; pl. Parodies (p[a^]r"[-o]*d[i^]z). [L. parodia, Gr. parw,di`a; para` beside + 'w,dh` a song: cf. F. parodie. See Para-, and Ode.]
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A writing in which the language or sentiment of an author is mimicked; especially, a kind of literary pleasantry, in which what is written on one subject is altered, and applied to another by way of burlesque; travesty.
The lively parody which he wrote . . . on Dryden's ``Hind and Panther'' was received with great applause.
--Macaulay. A popular maxim, adage, or proverb. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
Usage examples of "parodies".
You certainly are a far cry from the ghastly parodies that gave restoration its death sentence.
As the firelight threw shadows of grotesque parodies, Ken wondered that there were so many Hrrubans in the one village.
It might be fun to write parodies of well-known songs, one for each town in Moose County.
In time there came the first generation of dream realm adults: folk who had never known the outer realm, and to whom it was merely a repulsive alternate world peopled by flesh-clad parodies of skels.