Phantasm
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

4 letters

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

HANT

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

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"

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"

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DREAM
A state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream"

DUPPY

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

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"

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

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

MASAN

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"

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

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

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

DUPERY
Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

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

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

MIRAGE
Something illusory and unattainable

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"

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"

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"

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

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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"

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

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

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

CONNING

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

EIDOLON

FALLACY
A misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning

FANTASY
Imagination unrestricted by reality; "a schoolgirl fantasy"

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

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

FOOLING
Characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; "a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter"

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

KIDDING

LEMURES

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

SNOWJOB
A long and elaborate misrepresentation

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BLUFFING

DAYDREAM
Absentminded dreaming while awake

DELIRIUM
State of violent mental agitation

DELUSION
The act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas

FLIMFLAM
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

ILLUSION
An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

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

SPOOFERY

SPOOFING

TRICKING

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BEFOOLING
Derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent

DECEIVING

DECEPTION
An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

FALSENESS
The quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical

FANTASQUE

IDLEFANCY

IMAGINING

INVENTION
The act of inventing

PUTTINGON

SICKFANCY

SWINDLING

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

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

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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"

DEFRAUDING

ENMESHMENT

ENTRAPMENT
A defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials

OUTWITTING

SUBTERFUGE
Something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind"

TRICKINESS
The quality of being a slippery rascal

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ENSNAREMENT

HOODWINKING

IGNISFATUUS
A pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground

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

WAKINGDREAM

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ASTRALSPIRIT