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Startle Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is SPOOK which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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97%5Exact Match!
noun

• someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric

• a mental representation of some haunting experience

verb

• frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action

96%5Exact Match!
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

95%5Exact Match!
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

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New York Times16 Aug 2024 Down 9
Telegraph Quick20 Feb 2024 Across 23
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