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noun • someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric • a mental representation of some haunting experience verb • frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action | ||||||||
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noun • fear resulting from the awareness of danger • a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event • an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger • a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time verb • fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised • warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | ||||||||
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noun • sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events • a sudden attack of fear verb • cause fear in • cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | ||||||||
Startle Crossword Clue
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SPOOK which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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SPOOK
Updated: August 15, 2024
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| New York Times16 Aug 2024 | Down 9 | |
| Telegraph Quick20 Feb 2024 | Across 23 | |
| Eugene Sheffer25 Jan 2024 | Down 9 | |
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