Clock's wake-up sound

The answer

ALARM

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ALARM answer page.

Used 6 times across 4 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2019. It appears in 1 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ALARM

Every other clue in this collection answered by ALARM, most used first.

• Frighten - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
• Warning sound - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Burglar's bane - used 27 times, most recently in 2025
• Clock radio feature - used 25 times, most recently in 2025
• Startle - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Tocsin - used 24 times, most recently in 1996
• Eye opener? - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Wake-up call - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
• Warning signal - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Sleep spoiler - used 18 times, most recently in 2024
• Warning - used 16 times, most recently in 2022
• Morning sound - used 14 times, most recently in 2012
• Chili hotness unit - used 13 times, most recently in 2018
• Morning waker-upper - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Burglar deterrent - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Morning rouser - used 12 times, most recently in 2012
• Dream interrupter - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Break-in indicator - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Chili rating unit - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Danger signal - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Wake-up sound - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Antitheft device - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Bedside buzzer - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Kind of clock - used 9 times, most recently in 2014
• Dismay - used 8 times, most recently in 2010
• Warning device - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Auto option - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Car protector - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Consternation - used 7 times, most recently in 2008
• Siren - used 7 times, most recently in 2002
• Smartphone wake-up feature - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Smoke signal? - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Word with smoke or fire - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Attention-getting sound - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
• Bank vault installation - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
• Car security device - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Device with a snooze button - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Distress - used 6 times, most recently in 2021
• Eye opener of a sort - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• False ___ - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• It's a real eye-opener - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Scare - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Slumber stopper - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Smoke detector - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Smoke detector component - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Sneeze sound - ACHOO, used 130 times
• Trolley sound - CLANG, used 70 times
• Sound - AUDIO, used 61 times
• Derisive sound - SNORT, used 55 times
• Sound of a sneeze - ACHOO, used 55 times
• Trumpet sound - BLARE, used 55 times

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