Answer: CREAK
CREAK is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 45 times.
Referring Clues:
- Sound of old floorboards
 - Haunted house noise
 - Floorboard sound
 - It may come from a door
 - Result of an oil shortage?
 - Haunted house sound
 - Sound in a haunted house
 - Noise from a rickety floor
 - Bones and doors may do it
 - Spooky noise
 - Spooky sound
 - Squeaky sound
 - Floor noise
 - Sound from a floorboard
 - Old floorboard sound
 - Door sound, sometimes
 - Ghostly sound
 - Old floor noise
 - Reason to lubricate
 - Old-floor sound
 - Sound like rusted hinges
 - Unwelcome sound for a burglar
 - Sound of an unsound floor
 - Rusty hinge sound
 - Rusty gate sound
 - Old floorboards sound
 - Squeaking sound
 - Indication of an oil shortage?
 - Staircase sound
 - Squeak when walked on, as a floorboard
 - Sign of age
 - Noise from an old floorboard
 - Sound spooky
 - What old knees may do
 - Scary story sound
 - Sound from an old floorboard
 - Audible sign of age
 - Sound of an old wood floor
 - Floorboards sound
 - Squeaking noise
 - Sound of a haunted house's floor
 - Sound like an old floorboard
 - Loose floorboard sound
 - Sound from an old staircase
 - Old staircase sound
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - June 11, 2025
 - USA Today - October 15, 2024
 - USA Today - September 20, 2023
 - LA Times - October 05, 2021
 - LA Times - May 19, 2021
 - USA Today - April 27, 2021
 - New York Times - January 05, 2021
 - New York Times - December 15, 2020
 - Netword - October 20, 2020
 - Netword - October 18, 2020
 - Netword - December 22, 2019
 - New York Times - September 08, 2019
 - USA Today - February 15, 2019
 - Netword - November 18, 2018
 - King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 24, 2018
 - Netword - July 18, 2018
 - New York Times - August 27, 2017
 - New York Times - June 24, 2017
 - Universal - December 29, 2016
 - LA Times - November 19, 2016
 
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