Scare suddenly
The crossword clue "Scare suddenly" is answered by STARTLE, a 7-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2002. 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
STARTLE
7 letters. See every clue for this answer on the STARTLE answer page.
Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; 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 STARTLE
Every other clue in this collection answered by STARTLE, most used first.
- Catch off guard - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Surprise - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Take by surprise - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Cause to jump - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Shake up - used 10 times, most recently in 2012
- Alarm - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Shock - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
- Frighten. - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
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