Clues for the word "SUSPENSE"
We've had 28 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 43 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on October 22, 2025.
Definition of suspense
- a. - Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.
- a. - Expressing, or proceeding from, suspense or doubt.
- a. - The state of being suspended; specifically, a state of uncertainty and expectation, with anxiety or apprehension; indetermination; indecision; as, the suspense of a person waiting for the verdict of a jury.
- a. - Cessation for a time; stop; pause.
- a. - A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.
Referring Clues
- Hitchcock specialty
- Film genre
- It "kills" some people
- Hitchcock genre
- Thriller killer?
- Mood suffusing "Psycho"
- Anxious uncertainty
- "The ___ is killing me!"
- South American writer's beginning to evoke tension
- American quiet in feeling anticipation
- State of excited uncertainty
- Hitchcock's forte
- Discontinuance
- Pre-climactic excitement
- State of uncertainty or excitement
- The 3 of having to wait
- Tense uncertainty
- Poet almost keeping America in a state of excitement
- State of anxiety or excitement
- Support leader writers in use of tenterhooks?
- Indecision shows us soft in reason
- The Guardian writers mostly set without expectation
- Anxious feeling takes us over poet ending prematurely
- Tense expectation
- Hanging in a 23?
- Anxiety shown by South American writers at closing of bookstore
- Sense of tension and uncertainty
- Uncertainty of distinguishing feature in meaning
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - October 22, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 08, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 22, 2025
- Your Life Choices - April 30, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - April 24, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - April 17, 2024
- Mirror Daily - October 02, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - March 30, 2023
- Mindfood Daily - October 04, 2022
- New Zealand Herald - August 15, 2022
- Mirror Daily - June 22, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - March 30, 2017
- Penny Dell Sunday - February 05, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - November 21, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - August 10, 2016
- Mirror Daily - June 22, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - July 10, 2015
- LA Times - January 02, 2015
- New York Times - November 25, 2014
- Family Time - March 31, 2014
- Guardian Quick - December 12, 2013
- New York Times - September 29, 2013
- Universal - January 07, 2013
- New York Times - June 16, 2012
- Guardian Quick - January 29, 2012
- Guardian Everyman - November 28, 2010
- Netword - May 23, 2010
- Netword - July 19, 2009
- Guardian Cryptic - February 20, 2009
- And in 13 more crossword puzzles...