Extreme fear
The crossword clue "Extreme fear" is answered by DREAD, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DREAD
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DREAD answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1999. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
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Other clues for DREAD
Every other clue in this collection answered by DREAD, most used first.
- Fear - used 32 times, most recently in 2018
- Great fear - used 26 times, most recently in 2025
- Intense fear - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Apprehension - used 19 times, most recently in 2025
- Terror - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Trepidation - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Fear greatly - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Be fearful of - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Fearful feeling - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Hate the thought of - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Anticipate with fear - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- More than fear - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Not look forward to - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Abject fear - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Feeling of foreboding - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Angst - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Live in fear of - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Not look forward to at all - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Really not look forward to - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
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.
- Extreme - ULTRA, used 197 times
- "Fear of Flying" author Jong - ERICA, used 73 times
- Nick of "Cape Fear" - NOLTE, used 47 times
- Shrink in fear - COWER, used 40 times
- Extreme pain - AGONY, used 31 times
- Esteem to the extreme - ADORE, used 16 times
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