Show fear
The crossword clue "Show fear" is answered by COWER, a 5-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 1957. 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 2024; first recorded in 1957. It appears in 6 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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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
- Cringe in fear - used 12 times, most recently in 2026
- Shrink - used 6 times, most recently in 2008
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- Game show host - EMCEE, used 70 times
- Show to be true - PROVE, used 57 times
- Peep show - RAREE, used 48 times
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