Cringe in fear
The crossword clue "Cringe in fear" is answered by COWER, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
COWER
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the COWER answer page.
Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for COWER
Every other clue in this collection answered by COWER, most used first.
- Shrink in fear - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Cringe - used 29 times, most recently in 2020
- Quail - used 17 times, most recently in 2016
- Crouch in fear - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
- Show fear - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Shrink - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
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.
- "Fear of Flying" author Jong - ERICA, used 73 times
- Nick of "Cape Fear" - NOLTE, used 47 times
- Fear - DREAD, used 32 times
- Great fear - DREAD, used 26 times
- Intense fear - DREAD, used 23 times
- "Fear of Fifty" author Jong - ERICA, used 16 times
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