Wordplay

Not even his father was spared from his wordplay.

There was a lot of wordplay.

Wordplay is not horseplay.

The super computer bested veteran Jeopardy champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in all categories: the arts, popular culture, science, geography, wordplay and more.

Wordplay rarely translates.

I found those sentences very funny. The wordplay the author uses is simply brilliant.

Even this modest wordplay was an outlier: Sagers counted only three backronyms across the ’70s and ’80s.

delete the T from another part in the wordplay

However, some clues include words that do not form part of the wordplay or the definition.