Occult
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

HID

FEY
Slightly insane

DIM
Switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam

4 letters

VEIL
A garment that covers the head and face

SCUM
A film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the surface of a liquid

MERK

MASK
Activity that tries to conceal something; "no mask could conceal his ignorance"; "they moved in under a mask of friendship"

HOOD
(zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal

HIDE
Body covering of a living animal

MURK
An atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance

FILM
A thin coating or layer; "the table was covered with a film of dust"

DEEP
Literary term for an ocean; "denizens of the deep"

DARK
An unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness"

COPE
A long cloak; worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions

BURY
Cover from sight; "Afghani women buried under their burkas"

COWL
Protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine; "there are powerful engines under the hoods of new cars"; "the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine"

AIRY
Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms"

5 letters

WEIRD
Strikingly odd or unusual; "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker

VAGUE
Not clearly understood or expressed; "an obscure turn of phrase"; "an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit"-Anatole Broyard; "their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear"- P.A.Sorokin; "vague...forms of speech...have so long passed for mysteries of science"- John Locke

STASH
A secret store of valuables or money

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

PRIVY
A small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate

PUTON
Increase (one's body weight); "She gained 20 pounds when she stopped exercising"

PLANT
(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion

MAGIC
An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

LAYON

HEAVY
A serious (or tragic) role in a play

GLOOM
A feeling of melancholy apprehension

DITCH
A long narrow excavation in the earth

COVER
The act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it; "the cover concealed their guns from enemy aircraft"

CLOUD
A group of many things in the air or on the ground; "a swarm of insects obscured the light"; "clouds of blossoms"; "it discharged a cloud of spores"

EERIE
Suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious; "an eerie feeling of deja vu"

CLOSE
The concluding part of any performance

CACHE
Save up as for future use

BURST
The act of exploding or bursting; "the explosion of the firecrackers awoke the children"; "the burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft"

BROWN
A university in Rhode Island

CLOAK
A loose outer garment

BLOCK
The act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements

BLIND
A protective covering that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet"

BLACK
(board games) the darker pieces

BEFOG
Make less visible or unclear; "The stars are obscured by the clouds"; "the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley"

BEDIM
Make darker and difficult to perceive by sight

APPLY
Ask (for something); "He applied for a leave of absence"; "She applied for college"; "apply for a job"

6 letters

VEILED
Having or as if having a veil or concealing cover; "a veiled dancer"; "a veiled hat"; "veiled threats"; "veiled insults"

UNTOLD
Of an incalculable amount; "untold suffering"

SOMBER
Grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"

SHROUD
Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped

SHIELD
A protective covering or structure

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

OBDUCE

OCCULT
Hidden and difficult to see; "an occult fracture"; "occult blood in the stool"

SCREEN
Examine in order to test suitability; "screen these samples"; "screen the job applicants"

MUFFLE
Conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"

MANTLE
A sleeveless garment like a cloak but shorter

LATENT
(pathology) not presently active; "latent infection"; "latent diabetes"

INAFOG

ENIGMA
Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets"

FAERIE
The enchanted realm of fairies

DARKEN
Tarnish or stain; "a scandal that darkened the family's good name"

DIMOUT
Darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)

COVERT
A covering that serves to conceal or shelter something; "a screen of trees afforded privacy"; "under cover of darkness"; "the brush provided a covert for game"; "the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background"

CABALA
An esoteric theosophy of rabbinical origin based on the Hebrew scriptures and developed between the 7th and 18th centuries

CLOSED
Not having an open mind; "a closed mind unreceptive to new ideas"

CANOPY
The umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air

CLOTHE
Provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child"

BURIED
Placed in a grave; "the hastily buried corpses"

ARCANE
Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge; "the arcane science of dowsing"

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

ARCANA

WITCHY

MYSTIC
Someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension

HIDDEN
Designed to elude detection; "a hidden room or place of concealment such as a priest hole"; "a secret passage"; "the secret compartment in the desk"

ORPHIC
Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients"

SECRET
Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets"

UNSEEN
Not observed

HINTED

7 letters

TELLING
Informing by words

IMPLIED

UNCLEAR
Not easily deciphered; "indecipherable handwriting"

EVASIVE
Deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"

ELUSIVE
Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"

BIZARRE
Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

ECLIPSE
One celestial body obscures another

VIRTUAL
Being actually such in almost every respect; "a practical failure"; "the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin"

VARNISH
A coating that provides a hard, lustrous, transparent finish to a surface

UNKNOWN
Anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found

UNHUMAN
Divested of human qualities or attributes

STIFLED
Held in check with difficulty; "a smothered cough"; "a stifled yawn"; "a strangled scream"; "suppressed laughter"

SORCERY
The belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world

SHADOWY
Filled with shade; "the shady side of the street"; "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands"

SECRETE
Generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids; "secrete digestive juices"; "release a hormone into the blood stream"

SECLUSE

PSYCHIC
A person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception

PRIVITY

OVERLAY
A layer of decorative material (such as gold leaf or wood veneer) applied over a surface

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

PRIVATE
Not expressed; "secret (or private) thoughts"

OBSCURE
Reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa

MUFFLED
Wrapped up especially for protection or secrecy; "children muffled almost to the eyebrows"

MYSTERY
Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets"