Killjoy
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

4 letters

DAMP
Deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

DRIP
(architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)

5 letters

GRUMP
A bad-tempered person

CYNIC
A member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who advocated the doctrine that virtue is the only good and that the essence of virtue is self-control

6 letters

MISERY
A feeling of intense unhappiness; "she was exhausted by her misery and grief"

MALIST

GROUCH
A bad-tempered person

EEYORE

DAMPER
A depressing restraint; "rain put a damper on our picnic plans"

7 letters

PURITAN
A member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship

8 letters

DEFLATER

SOURPUSS
Someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression

NIHILIST
An advocate of anarchism

DAMPENER
A device that dampens or moistens something; "he used a dampener to moisten the shirts before he ironed them"

9 letters

WORRYWART
Thinks about unfortunate things that might happen

PESSIMIST
A person who expects the worst

GLOOMYGUS
Someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression

DEFEATIST
Someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions

CASSANDRA
(Greek mythology) a prophetess in Troy during the Trojan War whose predictions were true but were never believed

10 letters

WETBLANKET
Someone who spoils the pleasure of others

SPOILSPORT
Someone who spoils the pleasure of others

SEEKSORROW

RETREATIST

NEGATIVIST
Someone who is resigned to defeat without offering positive suggestions

MALCONTENT
A person who is discontented or disgusted

11 letters

PARTYPOOPER
Someone who spoils the pleasure of others

CREPEHANGER

13 letters

PROPHETOFDOOM