Adrenaline trigger

The answer

FEAR

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FEAR answer page.

Used 9 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2017; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for FEAR

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

• Dread - used 101 times, most recently in 2026
• Phobia - used 82 times, most recently in 2026
• Trepidation - used 34 times, most recently in 2023
• Cold feet - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Apprehension - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Be afraid of - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Terror - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Cause of quaking - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Be scared of - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Panic - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• North Carolina cape - used 9 times, most recently in 2004
• Alarm - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Cause of goosebumps - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• N. C. Cape. - used 7 times, most recently in 1990
• Suspect. - used 7 times, most recently in 2018
• Dismay - used 6 times, most recently in 2009
• North Carolina's Cape ___ - 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.

• Olfactory trigger - ODOR, used 11 times
• Pull the trigger - FIRE, used 9 times
• Pulled the trigger - SHOT, used 8 times

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