Answer: GHOST
GHOST is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 125 times.
Referring Clues:
- Basic Halloween costume
 - Possible cause of goose bumps
 - Apparition
 - Mere semblance
 - Hamlet's father, e.g.
 - Write for another
 - See 44-Across
 - Write (for)
 - Word game popularized by James Thurber
 - Easy-to-make Halloween costume
 - Disembodied spirit
 - 1990 Swayze/Moore film
 - Halloween decoration figure
 - 1990 Demi Moore film
 - Swayze/Moore film
 - Whoopi's Oscar film
 - Game often played in the car
 - Word game often played on road trips
 - Banquo, in "Macbeth"
 - White-sheet wearer, on Halloween
 - Pac-Man enemy
 - Word with story or writer
 - 1990 Whoopi Goldberg Oscar film
 - Not much of a chance?
 - Secondary image
 - Scrooge's bane
 - White-sheet wearer's depiction
 - Haunting thing
 - Haunted-house spirit
 - Pac-Man adversary
 - Halloween costume
 - TV-picture problem
 - Doppelgänger
 - Hamlet's vision
 - Mrs. Muir's beau
 - Phantom
 - Word game ... or a word that can precede the starts of 18-, 26-, 43- and 54-Across
 - Kind of town
 - Movie that featured "Unchained Melody"
 - Scrooge visitor
 - Clear spirit?
 - 1990 romantic fantasy film with Patrick Swayze
 - Hallowe'en TV host Elwy?
 - House haunter
 - You can hear it, but can't see it
 - Glimmer
 - Hamlet's father, for one
 - Poltergeist
 - 10/31 costume
 - Visitor to Scrooge
 - Hamlet's father, for one
 - Poltergeist
 - Transparent personality?
 - Casper is a friendly one
 - Creditless writer
 - Creditless writer
 - Creditless writer
 - Creditless writer
 - Marley's, for one
 - Common Halloween costume
 - Movie with a classic pottery-making scene
 - Halloween figure
 - Spirit
 - Swayze/Moore movie
 - Specter
 - Simple Halloween costume
 - White Halloween costume
 - That's the spirit
 - Behind-the-scenes writer
 - Casper, for one
 - Scary spirit
 - Film for which Whoopi won her Oscar
 - Seance invitee
 - Casper, famously
 - Any of four that chase Pac-Man
 - Costume for [circled letters] on Halloween
 - Classic family car game
 - Whoopi's Oscar movie
 - One of Scrooge's four visitors
 - See circled letters
 - Séance guest, supposedly
 - Shade
 - Spook
 - Haunting presence
 - It may be white as a sheet
 - Haunted house resident
 - Author's author
 - Semblance
 - Haunted-house inmate
 - Dead man walking?
 - 1990 film that featured "Unchained Melody" on its soundtrack
 - Haunting memory
 - Seance figure
 - Many a trick-or-treater
 - Wraith
 - Quickie Halloween costume
 - Classic word game
 - White figure in Snapchat's logo
 - Popular word game
 - Faint trace
 - Type of writer with no credit
 - Haunting one
 - Classic Halloween costume
 - Abruptly end a relationship with by ignoring texts, calls and such
 - White-sheet Halloween costume
 - Easy Halloween costume
 - Scrooge sighting
 - Stop texting back, slangily
 - See 50-Across
 - Abruptly stop responding to texts, say
 - Word before "town," "story" or "pepper"
 - Suddenly stop returning texts, say
 - Halloween sheet wearer
 - That's the spirit!
 - Stop texting after a first date, say
 - Blinky, Pinky, Inky or Clyde, in Pac-Man
 - Stop replying to, as on a 59-Across
 - One haunting a haunted house
 - Subject of spirit photography
 - Halloween costume made with a white sheet
 - Drop without warning, in a way
 - Phasmophobic's fear
 - Abruptly stop texting back
 - Suddenly go silent, in modern dating lingo
 - Halloween cookie shape
 
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - May 13, 2024
 - New York Times - April 11, 2024
 - LA Times - March 03, 2024
 - LA Times - November 12, 2023
 - USA Today - August 25, 2023
 - New York Times - July 31, 2023
 - New York Times - June 29, 2023
 - LA Times - May 07, 2023
 - USA Today - February 10, 2023
 - USA Today - February 02, 2023
 - USA Today - October 05, 2022
 - New York Times - October 03, 2022
 - New York Times - August 29, 2022
 - New York Times - May 18, 2022
 - New York Times - April 08, 2022
 - LA Times - January 17, 2022
 - LA Times - October 09, 2021
 - USA Today - May 19, 2021
 - USA Today - March 02, 2021
 - Universal - December 11, 2020
 
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