Bogeyman
Crossword Clue and Answers
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This clue in was most recently seen in the wild in The Guardian Quick.
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Publications
- The Guardian Quick - Wednesday, 3 Mar 2021
- The Guardian Speedy - Sunday, 7 Apr 2019
- The New York Times Crossword - Sunday, 6 Nov 2016
Crossword Answers
3 letters
BUG
A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
4 letters
OGRE
(folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings
5 letters
SPOOK
A mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
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
OGRESS
(folklore) a female ogre
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
SCARER
An effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
GOBLIN
(folklore) a small grotesque supernatural creature that makes trouble for human beings
7 letters
BUGABOO
An imaginary monster used to frighten children
BUGBEAR
An imaginary monster used to frighten children
COLONEL
A commissioned military officer in the United States Army or Air Force or Marines who ranks above a lieutenant colonel and below a brigadier general
MONSTER
Someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
INCUBUS
A male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women
DRACULA
Fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker
PHANTOM
Something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight"
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
BOGEYMAN
An imaginary monster used to frighten children
REVENANT
Someone who has returned from the dead
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
9 letters
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
BOOGEYMAN
An imaginary monster used to frighten children
NIGHTMARE
A terrifying or deeply upsetting dream
SCARECROW
An effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away from seeds
10 letters
EVILSPIRIT
A spirit tending to cause harm
HOLYTERROR
A very troublesome child
MUMBOJUMBO
Language or ritual causing, or intending to cause, confusion
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)