Answer: OGRE
OGRE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 490 times.
Referring Clues:
- Fairy tale villain
 - Meanie
 - Grimm villain
 - Nightmarish boss
 - Fiend
 - Bogeyman
 - Brute
 - Menace
 - Nasty sort
 - Very nasty sort
 - Snake, so to speak
 - The Grinch was one
 - Evil one
 - Grimm character
 - Mean one
 - Bugbear
 - Fearsome one
 - Grimm figure
 - More than a goblin
 - Folklore fiend
 - Tyrant
 - Ghoul
 - Monster
 - Fiend of dreams
 - Fairy tale menace
 - No Mr. Nice Guy
 - Grimm beast
 - "Fee, fi, fo, fum" caller
 - Horrible boss
 - Folklore meany
 - Monster of a boss?
 - Shrek, for one
 - "The Lord of the Rings" figure
 - Shrek, e.g.
 - Beast
 - Folklore meanie
 - Mean man
 - Unpleasant one
 - No friendly fellow
 - Blackguard
 - Storybook meanie
 - Villain
 - Hideous sort
 - Snarly sort
 - Frightener
 - Fairy-tale menace
 - Fairy-tale meanie
 - Fairy-tale fiend
 - Fairy tale meanie
 - Tyrannical sort
 - Big brute
 - No gentle giant
 - Dungeons & Dragons figure
 - Cruel one
 - Cruel person
 - Dungeons & Dragons character
 - Man-eating giant
 - Fee-faw-fum
 - Monster in a fairy tale
 - Grimm fiend
 - Fairy tale fiend
 - Fairy tale meany
 - Fiend of folklore
 - Folklore monster
 - Mean dude
 - Monstrously ugly one
 - Fairy tale baddie
 - Shrek, for instance
 - Dungeons & Dragons monster
 - Fairy tale monster
 - Monstrous meanie
 - Creature from "The Lord of the Rings"
 - Beast from "The Lord of the Rings"
 - Beastly bloke
 - Fairy-tale brute
 - Cruel dude
 - Mike Myers voiced one in 2001
 - Villain in many fairy tales
 - Beast of many a fairy tale
 - Fiendish fellow
 - Grimm meany
 - Scary character
 - Tyrannical type
 - Grotesque beastie
 - Fairy tale beast
 - Fairy-tale baddie
 - Bugaboo
 - Horribly uncouth fiend
 - Baddie
 - Frightful folklore figure
 - Folklore figure
 - Folklore baddie
 - Storybook monster
 - Giant who's not jolly
 - Figure in Magic: The Gathering
 - Nightmare figure
 - Jack's giant, e.g.
 - Grim Grimm character
 - Dictatorial boss
 - Bedtime story baddie
 - Damsel mistreater
 - Barbarous person
 - Golliwogg
 - Dreaded person
 - When repeated, one of Piers Anthony's "Xanth" fantasy novels
 - Winston, in "Time Bandits"
 - ___ Battle (video game)
 - Fairy tale brute
 - Meanie of fairy tales
 - Storybook baddie
 - Overbearing sort
 - Dungeons & Dragons giant
 - One may put a damsel in distress
 - Shrek or Fiona
 - Nasty type
 - Grimm monster
 - Bad guy
 - Grimm bad guy
 - Filmdom's Shrek, for one
 - Barbarian
 - Troll's cousin
 - Cruel character
 - Grimm creature
 - Shrek or Fiona, e.g.
 - Monstrous one
 - Fairy-tale villain
 - Fairy-tale monster
 - Fairy-tale heavy
 - Fantasy villain
 - One to avoid
 - Brutish dude
 - Brutish sort
 - Damsel antagonist
 - Grimm meanie
 - Nightmare of a boss
 - Mean person
 - Fearsome employer
 - Very mean one
 - Very mean boss
 - Cruel sort
 - Fairy-tale figure
 - Beastly sort
 - Grimm goon
 - Brutish one
 - Mythical beast
 - Tyrannical one
 - Folklore villain
 - Shrek is one
 - Brutish boss
 - Hideous giant
 - Monster of a boss
 - Brutish man
 - Inhuman brute
 - Storybook giant
 - Fabled meanie
 - Animated Fiona, e.g.
 - Mike Myers creature
 - Mythical monster
 - ''Puss in Boots'' beast
 - Fearsome storybook figure
 - Mean-tempered fellow
 - Grimm fellow
 - Fairy-tale beast
 - Tough boss
 - Mythical meanie
 - Kid lit baddie
 - 38-Down is one
 - Gummi Bear's foe
 - Beastly character
 - Legendary meanie
 - Monster of legend
 - Villain in some fairy tales
 - "Puss in Boots" beast
 - Cruel brute
 - Shrek, notably
 - Storybook villain
 - Beast in some fairy tales
 - Grimm creation
 - Frightful giant
 - Awful meanie
 - Cruel fellow
 - Brutish beast
 - Giant of folklore
 - D&D character
 - Fairy-tale villain, often
 - Grimm heavy
 - Fabled monster
 - Hideous creature
 - Human-eater, in folklore
 - Scary figure
 - Grim Grimm guy
 - Cantankerous sort
 - Tyrannical boss
 - "Puss in Boots" villain
 - Beastly fairy tale creature
 - Brute of folklore
 - Princess Fiona, e.g.
 - Mean fellow
 - Grumpy boss
 - Mean boss
 - Ymir, for one
 - Troll's kin
 - Nursery baddie
 - Storybook brute
 - Nasty boss
 - Nursery-rhyme baddie
 - Big meanie
 - "Fee fi fo fum" sayer
 - What Shrek is
 - Grimm baddie
 - Baddie in Perrault's tales
 - Figure in Tom Thumb tales
 - Foul-tempered one
 - Big bad boss
 - Fairy-tale character
 - D character
 - Fairy-tale creature
 - Dungeons & Dragons creature
 - Evil beast
 - Giant
 - Troll
 - Norse giant
 - "Puss in Boots" figure
 - Folklore brute
 - Folklore beast
 - Storybook beast
 - Storybook character
 - People devourer
 - Minotaur, e.g.
 - Damsel distresser
 - Mother Goose baddie
 - Princess Fiona, for one
 - Hideous humanoid
 - Hideous monster
 - Shrek, for example
 - Giant in a nightmare, maybe
 - Story monster
 - Shrek, for one
 - Fairy tale baddie -
 - Shrek for example ,
 - Shrek for one,
 - Mean beast
 - Cruel beast
 - Real meanie
 - Fairy tale antagonist
 - Storybook heavy
 - Fearsome figure
 - Purple people eater, e.g.
 - One to avoid reporting to
 - Common enemy in Dungeons & Dragons
 - Figure in "Jack and the Beanstalk"
 - Fiona or Shrek
 - Shrek, famously
 - Mythical man-eater
 - Grotesque giant
 - Mean monster of fairy tales
 - Really cruel guy
 - Monster of folk tales
 - Man-eating monster of myth
 - Storybook fiend
 - Hard-to-please type
 - Fire-breathing boss
 - Fairy-tale meany
 - Fantasy fiend
 - Barbarous one
 - "Hop-o'-My-Thumb" figure
 - Hardly a nice guy
 - The giant in "Jack and the Beanstalk," e.g.
 - Brute of legend
 - Mythical malefactor
 - Baddie of lore
 - Cruel taskmaster
 - Grumpy hubby, maybe
 - Grimm nasty
 - Grimm menace
 - Gruesome sort
 - The animated Shrek is one
 - Beast of fables
 - Villian
 - Bad thing in fairy tales
 - Mythical maneater
 - Troll's larger kin
 - Jack's giant
 - Cruel boss
 - Basis for Tolkien's orcs
 - Man-eating monster
 - Grendel in "Beowulf," e.g.
 - Creature outwitted by Hop-o'-My-Thumb
 - Unlikely mate for a princess
 - Man-eating meanie of myth
 - Hideous one
 - Beastly boss, e.g.
 - Mean sort
 - "Dungeons & Dragons" figure
 - Fearsome fairy tale figure
 - Dreamworks feature creature
 - Grumpy guy
 - Intimidating type
 - Fairy tale figure
 - Kid-lit baddie
 - Bad-tempered boss, maybe
 - Animated Shrek
 - Dreaded character
 - Fairy-tale nemesis
 - Major menace
 - Scary giant
 - Brutish fairy tale being
 - Dreadful giant
 - Mythical giant
 - Horrifying beast
 - Fairy tale bad guy
 - Man-eater
 - Nasty guy
 - Grim bad guy
 - Fearsome boss
 - Fairy tale heavy
 - Grimm (or grim?) character
 - People eater, perhaps
 - One carrying a spiked club, maybe
 - "Once Upon a Time" antagonist
 - Kiddie-lit monster
 - Fairy tale nemesis, sometimes
 - See 35-Across
 - Beastly character of nursery rhymes
 - Fairy-tale giant
 - Jack's giant, for one
 - Hulking beast
 - Folklore monstrosity
 - "Puss in Boots" baddie
 - Barbarous type
 - Hideous beast
 - Beast of fairy tales
 - Monstrous villain
 - Bad-tempered boss
 - Grimm brute
 - Ferocious creature
 - World of Warcraft monster
 - Savage
 - Less kissable fairy tale figure
 - Barbaric sort
 - Any creature like Shrek
 - Kiddie lit monster
 - Beast of kid literature
 - Creature like Shrek
 - Especially cruel boss
 - Brutish beast of folklore
 - Shrek is an animated one
 - Monster of leg
 - Grimm bully
 - Brutish creature of folklore
 - Beast like Shrek
 - Couth he is not
 - Despotic boss
 - "Hop-o'-My-Thumb" villain
 - Fantasy game role
 - Puss in Boots adversary
 - "World of Warcraft" beast
 - Kid lit monster
 - Brutish monster
 - Grotesque folklore figure
 - Princess Fiona, after sunset
 - Beastly fairy-tale creature
 - Fairy tale giant
 - Man-eater of folklore
 - Fantasy beast
 - One who's hardly hospitable
 - Legendary brute
 - Scary fairy-tale character
 - Beastly creature
 - Brothers Grimm villain
 - Grim Grimm beast
 - Fictional beast
 - Monster in some video games
 - Kid-lit meanie
 - Story time monster
 - Kid-lit brute
 - Beastly male creature
 - Shrek's species
 - Kid lit brute
 - Hideous beast of folklore
 - Manlike monster
 - Blunderbore, e.g.
 - Loathsome one
 - Scarebabe
 - Huge hideosity
 - Monster relative
 - Dungeons and Dragons monster
 - Fiendish sort
 - Fantasy meanie
 - No benevolent boss
 - Menacing fairy tale figure
 - Scary fairy tale beast
 - Damsel abductor of folklore
 - Horrible person
 - Fiend of fantasy
 - Horrid sort
 - Fictional fiend
 - Hence / Monster
 - Heartless hulk
 - Beast of folklore
 - "Tom Thumb" antagonist
 - Scary fairy-tale giant
 - Truculent type
 - Fantasy brute
 - Hideous folklore figure
 - Not a nice giant
 - Fantasy baddie
 - Ruthless sort
 - Hated figure
 - Villain of folklore
 - Fearsome figure of folklore
 - Creature in fantasy stories
 - Fairy-tale beastie
 - Mythical creature in "Puss in Boots"
 - Fearsome folklore figure
 - Word derived from the underworld god Orcus
 - People eater
 - Oppressor
 - Feared creature in folklore
 - Species in fairy tales
 - Scary creature in some fairy tales
 - "___ Enchanted" (2018 fantasy novel)
 - Fiona, for one
 - Mike Myers, in "Shrek"
 - Testy grump
 - Rough figure
 - Monster that's a Latin conjunction backward
 - Not-so-jolly green giant, perhaps
 - Aqua-skinned creature in Tamora Pierce's "Wolf-Speaker"
 - Villain defeated by Puss in Boots
 - Fantasy creature
 - Cruel creature of fable
 - Figure that might give a child nightmares
 - Monster such as Shrek
 - "Puss in Boots" monster
 - Oni, in Japanese folklore
 - Mean monster
 - Brute of a guy
 - Fairy tale foe
 - Folk tale figure
 - Fairy tale bully
 - Scary folklore figure
 - Fantasy monster
 - Horrible boss, say
 - Monster often seen wielding a club
 - Fergus, Farkle or Felicia, e.g.
 - "Ella Enchanted" villain
 - Monstrous sort
 - Oni-like monster
 - Large fantasy creature
 - Antagonist in "Hop-o'-My-Thumb"
 - Big, mean giant
 - "Ella Enchanted" creature
 - D&D monster
 - Fantasy heavy
 - Green giant, maybe
 - Fairy-tale antagonist
 - "Ella Enchanted" beast
 - Fantasy foe
 - Hulking D&D creature
 - Giant storybook
 - Mythological meanie
 - Monster in a magic forest
 - Monstrous person
 - Emoji with a red face and fangs
 - Big baddie
 - Creature such as Shrek
 - Emoji with horns and a red face
 - Fairy tale creature
 - Beast in "Puss in Boots"
 - Ugly beast
 - Creature with onionlike layers, according to Shrek
 - World of Warcraft beast
 - Large fantasy beast
 - The oni of Japanese folklore, e.g.
 - Enemy of Hop-o'-My-Thumb
 - Man-eating menace
 - Troll's lookalike
 - Creature popularized in Charles Perrault's "Tales of Mother Goose"
 - Japanese oni, e.g.
 - Dungeons & Dragons beast
 - Tall monster in EverQuest
 - EverQuest monster
 - Grim Grimm figure
 - Monster akin to a Japanese oni
 - Hulking brute
 - Dreaded figure
 - Large fantasy antagonist
 - Shrek's sort
 - Creature in Magic: The Gathering
 
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