Eidolon
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

ONI
The military intelligence agency that provides for the intelligence and counterintelligence and investigative and security requirements of the United States Navy

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FORM
A printed document with spaces in which to write; "he filled out his tax form"

HANT

LOOK
The feelings expressed on a person's face; "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face"

MYTH
A traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people

SIDE
An extended outer surface of an object; "he turned the box over to examine the bottom side"; "they painted all four sides of the house"

TRIP
An unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"

VIEW
The act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited"

WHIM
An odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"

WISE
Marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; "judicious use of one's money"; "a wise decision"

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ANGLE
A biased way of looking at or presenting something

DUPPY

FACET
A distinct feature or element in a problem; "he studied every facet of the question"

FANCY
Something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"

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

GUIDE
A structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something

GUISE
An artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"

HAUNT
A frequently visited place

IMAGE
A representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"

IMAGO
An adult insect produced after metamorphosis

LARVA
The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose

LIGHT
A device for lighting or igniting fuel or charges or fires; "do you have a light?"

MANES
A Persian prophet who founded Manichaeism (216-276)

MASAN

PHASE
(astronomy) the particular appearance of a body's state of illumination (especially one of the recurring shapes of the part of Earth's moon that is illuminated by the sun); "the full phase of the moon"

SHADE
Protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight; "they used umbrellas as shades"; "as the sun moved he readjusted the shade"

SHAPE
The spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance; "geometry is the mathematical science of shape"

SLANT
Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; "the roof had a steep pitch"

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

STYLE
Designate by an identifying term; "They styled their nation `The Confederate States'"

TWIST
Twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates; "wrench a window off its hinges"; "wrench oneself free from somebody's grip"; "a deep sigh was wrenched from his chest"

UMBRA
A region of complete shadow resulting from total obstruction of light

VAPOR
A visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance

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ASPECT
The feelings expressed on a person's face; "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face"

ASTRAL
Being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars; "an astral body"; "stellar light"

ZOMBIE
Someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way; "only an automaton wouldn't have noticed"

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

WHIMSY
An odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"

BUBBLE
A dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic

DYBBUK
(Jewish folklore) a demon that enters the body of a living person and controls that body's behavior

EFFECT
An impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived); "he just did it for effect"

FIGURE
A predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating; "she made the best score on compulsory figures"

IDOLUM

MAGGOT
The larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter

MANNER
A kind; "what manner of man are you?"

PHASIS

REGARD
A long fixed look; "he fixed his paternal gaze on me"

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

SPIRIT
An inclination or tendency of a certain kind; "he had a change of heart"

SPRITE
A small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers

VAPOUR
A visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance

VISION
The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"

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BANSHEE
(Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death

CHIMERA
(Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon

CONTROL
The activity of managing or exerting control over something; "the control of the mob by the police was admirable"

EIDOLON

FANTASY
Imagination unrestricted by reality; "a schoolgirl fantasy"

FASHION
Consumer goods (especially clothing) in the current mode

FEATURE
A prominent attribute or aspect of something; "the map showed roads and other features"; "generosity is one of his best characteristics"

FICTION
A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

FIGMENT
A contrived or fantastic idea; "a figment of the imagination"

GESTALT
A configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts

IMAGERY
The ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination"

LEMURES

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

RESPECT
(usually preceded by `in') a detail or point; "it differs in that respect"

ROMANCE
Tell romantic or exaggerated lies; "This author romanced his trip to an exotic country"

SEEMING
Appearing as such but not necessarily so; "for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent"; "the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies"; "the ostensible truth of their theories"; "his seeming honesty"

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

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

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DELIRIUM
State of violent mental agitation

DELUSION
The act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas

ILLUSION
An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

LIKENESS
Similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things; "man created God in his own likeness"

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

PRESENCE
The impression that something is present; "he felt the presence of an evil force"

REVENANT
Someone who has returned from the dead

SPECTRUM
A broad range of related objects or values or qualities or ideas or activities

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FANTASQUE

IDLEFANCY

IMAGINING

INVENTION
The act of inventing

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

REFERENCE
The most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to; "the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos"

SEMBLANCE
An outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different color"

SICKFANCY

THEOPHANY
A visible (but not necessarily material) manifestation of a deity to a human person

VIEWPOINT
A mental position from which things are viewed; "we should consider this problem from the viewpoint of the Russians"; "teaching history gave him a special point of view toward current events"

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APPARITION
An act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly; "natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stranger"

APPEARANCE
The act of appearing in public view; "the rookie made a brief appearance in the first period"; "it was Bernhardt's last appearance in America"

BRAINCHILD
A product of your creative thinking and work; "he had little respect for the inspirations of other artists"; "after years of work his brainchild was a tangible reality"

IMPRESSION
An impressionistic portrayal of a person; "he did a funny impression of a politician"

LINEAMENTS

SIMULACRUM
A representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"

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IMAGINATION
The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"

INCORPOREAL
Without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit"

MAKEBELIEVE
Represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; "She makes like an actress"

POLTERGEIST
A ghost that announces its presence with rapping and the creation of disorder

TOTALEFFECT

WAKINGDREAM