Abject fear
The crossword clue "Abject fear" is answered by TERROR, a 6-letter entry. Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
TERROR
6 letters. See every clue for this answer on the TERROR answer page.
Used 13 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026. It appears in 7 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for TERROR
Every other clue in this collection answered by TERROR, most used first.
- Intense fear - used 31 times, most recently in 2026
- Extreme fear - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Overwhelming fear - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Extreme fright - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Fright - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Brat - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Panic - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
- "Holy" brat - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
- Holy ___ - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Holy one? - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
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.
- Irrational fear - PHOBIA, used 16 times
- Shrink in fear - CRINGE, used 15 times
- Fear - PHOBIA, used 12 times
- "...nothing to fear but fear __" - ITSELF, used 9 times
- ". . . is fear __" - ITSELF, used 8 times
- Showed fear - TENSED, used 8 times
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