Cause of quaking
The crossword clue "Cause of quaking" is answered by FEAR, a 4-letter entry. Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FEAR
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FEAR answer page.
Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2010. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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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
- Be scared of - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Panic - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
- Adrenaline trigger - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
- 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.
- Cause of ruin - BANE, used 43 times
- Underlying cause - ROOT, used 33 times
- Cause for a lawsuit - TORT, used 21 times
- Cause of a bad air day - SMOG, used 17 times
- Cause of distress - BANE, used 16 times
- Cause of harm - BANE, used 14 times
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