Clues for the word "GHOST"
We've had 168 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 228 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on November 13, 2025.
Definition of ghost
- n. - The spirit; the soul of man.
- n. - The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
- n. - Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.
- n. - A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
- v. i. - To die; to expire.
- v. t. - To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.
Referring Clues
- Basic Halloween costume
- Possible cause of goose bumps
- Apparition
- Mere semblance
- Hamlet's father, e.g.
- Write for another
- See 44-Across
- Write (for)
- Word game popularized by James Thurber
- Easy-to-make Halloween costume
- Disembodied spirit
- 1990 Swayze/Moore film
- Halloween decoration figure
- 1990 Demi Moore film
- Swayze/Moore film
- Whoopi's Oscar film
- Game often played in the car
- Word game often played on road trips
- Banquo, in "Macbeth"
- White-sheet wearer, on Halloween
- Pac-Man enemy
- Word with story or writer
- 1990 Whoopi Goldberg Oscar film
- Not much of a chance?
- Secondary image
- Scrooge's bane
- White-sheet wearer's depiction
- Haunting thing
- Haunted-house spirit
- Pac-Man adversary
- Halloween costume
- TV-picture problem
- Doppelgänger
- Hamlet's vision
- Mrs. Muir's beau
- Phantom
- Word game ... or a word that can precede the starts of 18-, 26-, 43- and 54-Across
- Kind of town
- Movie that featured "Unchained Melody"
- Scrooge visitor
- Clear spirit?
- 1990 romantic fantasy film with Patrick Swayze
- Hallowe'en TV host Elwy?
- House haunter
- You can hear it, but can't see it
- Glimmer
- Hamlet's father, for one
- Poltergeist
- 10/31 costume
- Visitor to Scrooge
- Hamlet's father, for one
- Poltergeist
- Transparent personality?
- Casper is a friendly one
- Creditless writer
- Creditless writer
- Creditless writer
- Creditless writer
- Marley's, for one
- Common Halloween costume
- Movie with a classic pottery-making scene
- Halloween figure
- Spirit
- Swayze/Moore movie
- Specter
- Simple Halloween costume
- White Halloween costume
- That's the spirit
- Behind-the-scenes writer
- Casper, for one
- Scary spirit
- Film for which Whoopi won her Oscar
- Seance invitee
- Casper, famously
- Any of four that chase Pac-Man
- Costume for [circled letters] on Halloween
- Classic family car game
- Whoopi's Oscar movie
- One of Scrooge's four visitors
- See circled letters
- Séance guest, supposedly
- Shade
- Spook
- Haunting presence
- It may be white as a sheet
- Haunted house resident
- Author's author
- Semblance
- Haunted-house inmate
- Dead man walking?
- 1990 film that featured "Unchained Melody" on its soundtrack
- Haunting memory
- Seance figure
- Many a trick-or-treater
- Wraith
- Quickie Halloween costume
- Classic word game
- White figure in Snapchat's logo
- Popular word game
- Faint trace
- Type of writer with no credit
- Haunting one
- Swayze film
- Casper the friendly ___
- Haunted house figure
- Band of Horses "Is There a ___"
- Rush "___ of a Chance"
- Edie Brickell "___ of a Dog"
- Spectre
- Spirit of a grand entertainer
- Walker appearing late?
- Spirit, yes, but not much of a chance!
- Spirit of a grand American entertainer
- Haunted house haunter
- Visible manifestation of a dead person
- Trace note taken to TV anchorman
- Grand party-giver showing spirit
- First to give present, one wrapped in a sheet?
- Spirited account of grand entertainer on the level in US
- He might make himself clear
- Good landlord serves spirit
- Straub's "___ Story"
- Being hunted on an old Syfy program
- Christmas Present had one in Dickens
- Hamlet's father in "Hamlet," e.g.
- Spirit of a guerilla leader with an army
- After midnight, landlord produces spirit
- Good party organiser, one whose work is bound to be misattributed
- Spirit stocked by obliging hostess
- Spirit from good landlord
- Landlord after good spirit
- Spirit of great many people
- Good entertainer maybe 1 down's
- Army after good spirit
- Uncredited author
- Charlie Brown's Halloween costume
- Indigo Girls song that haunts?
- Suggestion of grand crowd ...
- Classic Halloween costume
- Abruptly end a relationship with by ignoring texts, calls and such
- Apparition revealed by good entertainer
- Ride straight on up the creek
- Spectre found on Pat Barker's 1?
- White-sheet Halloween costume
- Easy Halloween costume
- Sort of writer with spirit?
- Scrooge sighting
- Stop texting back, slangily
- See 50-Across
- Abruptly stop responding to texts, say
- Word before "town," "story" or "pepper"
- Suddenly stop returning texts, say
- Shape of a Halloween cookie, maybe
- Halloween sheet wearer
- Walker appearing late?
- Stop texting after a first date, say
- Whoopi Goldberg film
- Blinky, Pinky, Inky or Clyde, in Pac-Man
- One haunting a haunted house
- Spirit of a grand entertainer?
- Subject of spirit photography
- Halloween costume made with a white sheet
- Haunted Mansion resident
- Phasmophobic's fear
- Abruptly stop texting back
- Suddenly go silent, in modern dating lingo
- Halloween cookie shape
- Abruptly cut contact with
Last Seen In
- LA Times - November 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 13, 2025
- Daily Quick - October 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - August 20, 2025
- Daily Quick - May 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - December 25, 2024
- USA Today - December 15, 2024
- Daily American - November 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 06, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - October 30, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - October 29, 2024
- Daily Quick - June 17, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - June 03, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 25, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - May 17, 2024
- New York Times - May 13, 2024
- Daily Quick - April 14, 2024
- New York Times - April 11, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 03, 2024
- LA Times - March 03, 2024
- LA Times - November 12, 2023
- Daily Quick - October 15, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - September 13, 2023
- USA Today - August 25, 2023
- New York Times - July 31, 2023
- New York Times - June 29, 2023
- USA Today - June 24, 2023
- Daily Quick - May 30, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 27, 2023
- And in 198 more crossword puzzles...