Bete noire
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

BUG
A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

WOE
Intense mournfulness

4 letters

EVIL
Morally objectionable behavior

FEAR
An anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction"

HARM
The act of damaging something or someone

HATE
The emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action

OGRE
(folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings

PEST
A persistently annoying person

BANE
Something causing misery or death; "the bane of my life"

5 letters

BOGEY
An evil spirit

BOGLE

CURSE
An evil spell; "a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the whammy on me"

DEATH
The act of killing; "he had two deaths on his conscience"

GHOST
A mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"

GHOUL
An evil spirit or ghost

THORN
Something that causes irritation and annoyance; "he's a thorn in my flesh"

6 letters

BOOGER
Dried nasal mucus

BUGGER
Someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)

BURDEN
Weight to be borne or conveyed

HORROR
Intense and profound fear

OGRESS
(folklore) a female ogre

PLAGUE
An annoyance; "those children are a damn plague"

SCARER
An effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds

TERROR
The use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons); "he used terror to make them confess"

7 letters

BOGGART

BUGBEAR
An imaginary monster used to frighten children

DISEASE
An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning

DRACULA
Fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker

INCUBUS
A male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women

MONSTER
Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful

NEMESIS
(Greek mythology) the goddess of divine retribution and vengeance

PHANTOM
Something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight"

SCOURGE
A whip used to inflict punishment (often used for pedantic humor)

SPECTER
A mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"

TORMENT
The act of harassing someone

VAMPIRE
(folklore) a corpse that rises at night to drink the blood of the living

WOLFMAN
A monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again

BUGABOO
An imaginary monster used to frighten children

8 letters

ANATHEMA
A formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication

BOGEYMAN
An imaginary monster used to frighten children

CALAMITY
An event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"

REVENANT
Someone who has returned from the dead

SUCCUBUS
A female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men

VEXATION
The act of troubling or annoying someone

WEREWOLF
A monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again

9 letters

BETENOIRE
A detested person; "he is an anathema to me"

BOOGERMAN

BOOGEYMAN
An imaginary monster used to frighten children

FEEFAWFUM

GRIEVANCE
An allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice

HOBGOBLIN
An object of dread or apprehension; "Germany was always a bugbear for France"; "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"--Ralph Waldo Emerson

NIGHTMARE
A terrifying or deeply upsetting dream

OPENWOUND

SCAREBABE

SCARECROW
An effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds

10 letters

AFFLICTION
A cause of great suffering and distress

FRIGHTENER

HOLYTERROR
A very troublesome child

INFLICTION
An act causing pain or damage

MUMBOJUMBO
Language or ritual causing, or intending to cause, confusion

PESTILENCE
A pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of; "racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation"; "according to him, I was the canker in their midst"

VISITATION
An official visit for inspection or supervision; "the commissioner made visitations to all the precinct stations"; "the recent visitation of the bishop to his diocese"

11 letters

ABOMINATION
Hate coupled with disgust

DESTRUCTION
The termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists

DETESTATION
Hate coupled with disgust

RUNNINGSORE

12 letters

FRANKENSTEIN
The monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation)

14 letters

CRUSHINGBURDEN

19 letters

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