Bugaboo
Crossword Clue and Answers
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- USA Today - Sunday, 18 Oct 2020
Crossword Answers
3 letters
BUG
A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
DUD
An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"
4 letters
BOGY
An unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft
FEAR
An anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction"
OGRE
(folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings
BANE
Something causing misery or death; "the bane of my life"
5 letters
BOGEY
An evil spirit
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
6 letters
BUGGER
Someone who engages in anal copulation (especially a male who engages in anal copulation with another male)
HORROR
Intense and profound fear
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"
BOOGER
Dried nasal mucus
7 letters
BUGBEAR
An imaginary monster used to frighten children
BOGYMAN
BUGABOO
An imaginary monster used to frighten children
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
PHANTOM
Something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight"
PROBLEM
A source of difficulty; "one trouble after another delayed the job"; "what's the problem?"
SPECTER
A mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
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
8 letters
SUCCUBUS
A female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men
WEREWOLF
A monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again
BOGEYMAN
An imaginary monster used to frighten children
9 letters
BOOGEYMAN
An imaginary monster used to frighten children
BETENOIRE
A detested person; "he is an anathema to me"
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
SCARECROW
An effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
10 letters
HOLYTERROR
A very troublesome child
MUMBOJUMBO
Language or ritual causing, or intending to cause, confusion
11 letters
ABOMINATION
Hate coupled with disgust
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)
13 letters
FLASHINTHEPAN
Someone who enjoys transient success but then fails