Crossword : Expressing sarcasm in Spanish

Think you’ve mastered Spanish? Time to sharpen your wit! This crossword challenges your knowledge of sarcastic expressions, ironic phrases, and cutting remarks in Spanish, the kind of language that rarely appears in textbooks but flows freely in everyday conversation. From subtle understatement to biting irony, discover how native speakers say one thing and mean quite another.

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Clues

Across

2. Always, at all times without exception
5. Reproach, blame, rebuke
9. Cynically, in a cynical way
10. Scorn, public mockery
12. To seem
13. Recently, just
14. To want or love
15. Ironies, ironic statements

Down

1. Arrogant, overly self-important
3. Mordacity, biting sarcasm
4. Pedantry, showing off knowledge
6. Hypocrite, insincere person
7. To exaggerate, overstate
8. To look for or search something
11. About, concerning

Answers

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Across

2. Always, at all times without exception → siempre
5. Reproach, blame, rebuke → reproche
9. Cynically, in a cynical way → cinicamente
10. Scorn, public mockery → escarnio
12. To seem → parecer
13. Recently, just → recien
14. To want or love → querer
15. Ironies, ironic statements → ironias

Down

1. Arrogant, overly self-important → arrogante
3. Mordacity, biting sarcasm → mordacidad
4. Pedantry, showing off knowledge → pedanteria
6. Hypocrite, insincere person → hipocrita
7. To exaggerate, overstate → exagerar
8. To look for or search something → buscar
11. About, concerning → acerca

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