Crossword clues
Causing the willies
The crossword clue "Causing the willies" is answered by EERIE, a 5-letter entry. Used 18 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2002. 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
EERIE
EERIE
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the EERIE answer page.
18Times used
9Distinct years
2021Most recent year
3Publications
Used 18 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2021; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for EERIE
Every other clue in this collection answered by EERIE, most used first.
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- Weird - used 186 times, most recently in 2026
- Uncanny - used 157 times, most recently in 2026
- Creepy - used 153 times, most recently in 2026
- Hair-raising - used 94 times, most recently in 2026
- Unsettling - used 74 times, most recently in 2026
- Haunting - used 71 times, most recently in 2026
- Spine-chilling - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
- Strange - used 61 times, most recently in 2025
- Chilling - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
- Ghostly - used 53 times, most recently in 2022
- Unearthly - used 50 times, most recently in 2024
- Like a haunted house - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
- Macabre - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
- Mysterious - used 40 times, most recently in 2023
- Chill-inducing - used 35 times, most recently in 2024
- Otherworldly - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Bone-chilling - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Like some coincidences - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Causing goose bumps - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Eldritch - used 27 times, most recently in 2022
- Goosebump-inducing - used 26 times, most recently in 2026
- Out of this world - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
- Frightfully strange - used 22 times, most recently in 2023
- Like Poe tales - used 22 times, most recently in 2025
- Very strange - used 21 times, most recently in 2020
- Bizarre - used 20 times, most recently in 2023
- Like "The X-Files" - used 19 times, most recently in 2019
- Weird and scary - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- A la King? - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Like freakish coincidences - used 16 times, most recently in 2018
- Like ghost stories - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Shiver-inducing - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
- Like "The Twilight Zone" - used 15 times, most recently in 2019
- Really strange - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Unnatural - used 14 times, most recently in 2009
- Ghastly strange - used 13 times, most recently in 2013
- Goosebumps-inducing - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- Supernatural - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
- Hauntingly strange - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Hitchcockian - used 12 times, most recently in 2018
- Willies-inducing - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
- Goosebump-raising - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Mysteriously spooky - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
- Spectral - used 11 times, most recently in 2016
- Chilling, in a way - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
- Frightening - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Inspiring fear. - used 10 times, most recently in 2010
- Like haunted houses - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Like a Stephen King novel - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- Unexplainable - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Weirdly strange - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Almost too coincidental - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Causing goosebumps - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Like a graveyard at midnight - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Like a King novel - used 8 times, most recently in 2007
- Spookily strange - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Unsettlingly strange - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Weirdly spooky - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Causing the creeps - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Inspiring dread - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
- Like Halloween sounds - used 7 times, most recently in 2019
- Like Poe stories - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Like Poe's prose - used 7 times, most recently in 2011
- Like Stephen King novels - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Like things that go bump in the night - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Scary - used 7 times, most recently in 2002
- Stranger than strange - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Unnerving - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Unworldly - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
- Beyond unusual - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- Like a Poe tale - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
- Like many a Poe tale - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
- More than odd - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
- Peculiar - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Phantasmal - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
- Preternatural - used 6 times, most recently in 2017
- Strange and scary - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Weirder than weird - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
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