Answer: SCARES
SCARES is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 34 times.
Referring Clues:
- Near misses, maybe
- States of alarm
- Terrorizes
- Spooks
- Finds, with "up"
- Horror film's offerings
- Close calls, perhaps
- Gives a start to
- Frightens
- Gives the willies to
- Alarms
- Narrow squeaks
- Close calls
- Causes a stampede, in a way
- Unnerves
- Frightful events
- Gives a start
- Cows
- Gives a fright
- Hiccup remedies
- Startles
- Heart quickeners
- False alarms
- False bomb threats, say
- Haunted hayride offerings
- They might end with a "Phew!"
- Halloween inevitabilities
- Causes to quake
- Close ones
- Narrow escapes
- Haunted house offerings
- Says "Boo!" to, say
- Gives the heebie-jeebies
- Emulates a Monsters, Inc. employee
Last Seen In:
- New York Times - August 25, 2025
- New York Times - August 25, 2025
- USA Today - July 24, 2025
- USA Today - April 18, 2025
- USA Today - August 27, 2024
- USA Today - July 09, 2024
- USA Today - August 02, 2023
- New York Times - April 09, 2022
- Netword - May 16, 2021
- Netword - November 10, 2020
- Netword - October 04, 2020
- New York Times - June 17, 2020
- LA Times - May 23, 2020
- Netword - December 11, 2019
- New York Times - May 06, 2019
- USA Today - March 01, 2019
- New York Times - January 22, 2019
- Netword - June 09, 2018
- LA Times - June 09, 2018
- USA Today - October 02, 2017
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