Alarming situation

The answer

SCARE

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SCARE answer page.

Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SCARE

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

• Frighten - used 195 times, most recently in 2026
• Alarm - used 64 times, most recently in 2026
• Close call - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• False alarm - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Spook - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Startle - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Close shave - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Terrify - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• Fright - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Petrify - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
• Panic - used 10 times, most recently in 2020
• Say "Boo!" to - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Cause to jump - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Fill with fear - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Freak out - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Hiccup cure, supposedly - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Intimidate - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Kind of tactics - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Make quake - used 6 times, most recently in 2025

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.

• Chaotic situation - SNAFU, used 19 times
• Kind of situation - NOWIN, used 14 times
• Alarming - SCARY, used 13 times
• Muddled situation - SNAFU, used 12 times
• Messy situation - SNAFU, used 10 times
• Do-__ situation - ORDIE, used 9 times

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