Startled exclamation Crossword Clue

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Startled exclamation Crossword Answer

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EEK

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

STARTLED (adjective)
1. excited by sudden surprise or alarm and making a quick involuntary movement
EXCLAMATION (noun)
1. an exclamatory rhetorical device
2. an abrupt excited utterance

Hint 2: Other Answers Used in the Past

EEK
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More WSJ Crossword (11/24/2025) Answers

Across

1. They’re rolled out during a rain delay

6. Like beaches and dunes

11. Typo fixers, in brief

14. Thrown for ___ (surprised)

15. Figure skater Rodnina

16. CT scan relative

17. Nightmare for college students

19. Peas container

20. Summer in France

21. Hoodwink

23. Nightmares for porch pirates

28. Jane ___

29. Provided with lodgings

30. Tetra-, doubled

33. Viper’s weapon

34. Fort ___ (Army post near Trenton)

36. Nightmare for the team whose season it ends

41. Suffix for Bhutan or Japan

42. Bank (on)

43. Some breads and whiskeys

44. Like kitchen prep work

46. Facts collected for analysis

49. Nightmare of a situation

54. Corrosive stuff

55. "It's just a scratch"

56. Simu who plays Shang-Chi

57. Caterer's container

58. Gary Wright hit, and a hint to what permeates the theme answers

62. Container for groceries

63. Tennis star Agassi

64. Dense

65. ___ admin (computer techie)

66. Mythological creature with a goat’s horns and legs

67. Stops for desert caravans

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Down

1. No longer wild

2. Justice Samuel

3. Contest with riding and roping

4. Poker prize

5. Didn’t drag on

6. "Easy!"

7. Staggering

8. Veto that sounds like an NBA team

9. Double-stranded molecule

10. Thanksgiving veggie

11. British celebration first observed in 1902

12. Rat out an accomplice

13. Triangle trio

18. Person with regrets

22. "That's right!"

24. Authentic

25. Spiced tea drink

26. Top-shelf

27. Beer hall vessels

30. Be in debt

31. High-energy particle that moves almost as fast as light

32. Arboreal age indicators

33. Make fish and chips, say

35. Marks a ballot box

37. Faucet problem

38. Blacken on the grill

39. French fashion magazine

40. Metric mass unit

45. Homer's neighbor

46. Light controller

47. “Don’t have ___!” (Bart Simpson phrase)

48. Become fond of

49. Applies crudely, as paint

50. Personal journal

51. Graceland guy

52. Frequent flower girl choice

53. Istanbul natives

58. '___ Kapital'

59. Single-stranded molecule

60. Summer hrs. in Savannah

61. Cry of insight

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