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| Date | Grid | Clue | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, July 02, 2009 | 22A | Like some coincidences | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Friday, June 05, 2009 | 29A | Like many an omen | Martin Ashwood-Smith |
| Thursday, May 07, 2009 | 42A | Creepy | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Tuesday, May 05, 2009 | 67A | Amazingly coincidental | Trip Payne |
| Monday, March 02, 2009 | 1A | Spooky | Lynn Lempel |
| Sunday, March 01, 2009 | 27A | Evoking goose bumps, say | Robert W. Harris |
| Thursday, August 14, 2008 | 68A | Poe-ish | Damon J. Gulczynski |
| Tuesday, July 01, 2008 | 51D | Fear-inspiring | Ken Bessette |
| Monday, May 05, 2008 | 56D | Like "The Twilight Zone" music | Stella Daily and Bruce Venzke |
| Friday, March 14, 2008 | 30D | Like some similarities | Kevin G. Der |
| Wednesday, January 30, 2008 | 50D | Spooky | Peter A. Collins |
| Wednesday, October 17, 2007 | 39A | Like déjà vu | Paula Gamache |
| Friday, March 02, 2007 | 28A | Out of this world | Eric Berlin |
| Thursday, February 22, 2007 | 51D | Like some coincidences | Mike Nothnagel |
| Monday, February 05, 2007 | 16A | Causing goosebumps | Joy C. Frank |
| Tuesday, November 28, 2006 | 66A | Like "Twilight Zone" episodes | Alan Arbesfeld |
| Wednesday, November 01, 2006 | 59A | Spine-tingling | Paula Gamache |
| Thursday, October 05, 2006 | 33D | Unnatural | Joe DiPietro |
| Monday, October 02, 2006 | 68A | Spine-chilling | Harvey Estes |
| Monday, June 26, 2006 | 12D | Spine-tingling | Randy Sowell |
| Thursday, April 20, 2006 | 28D | Bone-chilling | Joe DiPietro |
| Saturday, April 15, 2006 | 59A | Extraterrestrial | Bob Peoples |
| Thursday, March 30, 2006 | 34D | Like some coincidences | Richard Silvestri |
| Monday, February 27, 2006 | 69A | Like ghostly sounds | Ed Early |
| Thursday, December 29, 2005 | 62A | Like premonitions | David Pringle |
| Monday, December 19, 2005 | 7D | Like a ghost's howling | Richard Hughes |
| Sunday, December 11, 2005 | 103D | Haunting | Ben Tausig |
| Wednesday, October 12, 2005 | 27A | Unearthly | Paul Guttormsson |
| Tuesday, August 16, 2005 | 34A | Like "Goosebumps" stories | Randall J. Hartman |
| Monday, August 01, 2005 | 45A | Spine-tingling | Kendall Twigg |
| Sunday, June 19, 2005 | 98A | Ghostlike | Manny Nosowsky |
| Friday, May 27, 2005 | 22A | Reminiscent of an alien landscape | Manny Nosowsky |
| Sunday, March 13, 2005 | 68D | Unexplainable | Patrick Merrell |
| Saturday, February 26, 2005 | 46D | Chilling | Jim Page |
| Sunday, October 31, 2004 | 81D | Unsettling | Patrick Merrell |
| Tuesday, October 19, 2004 | 32D | Bone-chilling | Adam Cohen |
| Friday, August 13, 2004 | 19A | À la King | Harvey Estes |
| Monday, August 02, 2004 | 68A | Weird | Holden Baker |
| Monday, July 12, 2004 | 59A | Hair-raising | Gregory E. Paul |
| Sunday, July 04, 2004 | 128D | Creepy | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Sunday, February 01, 2004 | 21A | Appropriate for Halloween | Roy Leban |
| Sunday, January 25, 2004 | 62A | Hitchcockian | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon |
| Saturday, January 03, 2004 | 25D | À la Poe | James M. and James C. Jenista |
| Monday, October 13, 2003 | 16A | Like howls in a haunted house | Eric Berlin |
| Tuesday, September 23, 2003 | 68A | Uncanny | Nancy Salomon and Gail Grabowski |
| Wednesday, September 03, 2003 | 16A | Like "Goosebumps" tales | Myles Callum |
| Sunday, August 24, 2003 | 39D | Unnatural | Patrick Berry |
| Wednesday, July 16, 2003 | 34D | Spooky | Norm Guggenbiller |
| Tuesday, June 03, 2003 | 33A | Spooky | Judy Cole |
| Monday, May 26, 2003 | 62A | Unearthly | Lynn Lempel |
| Tuesday, April 22, 2003 | 19A | Spooky | Nancy Kavanaugh |
| Monday, April 07, 2003 | 40D | Like Halloween sounds | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon |
| Monday, March 03, 2003 | 19A | Spooky | Patrick Merrell |
| Tuesday, February 18, 2003 | 65A | Really spooky | Holden Baker |
| Thursday, November 28, 2002 | 30D | Chill-inducing | Patrick Merrell |
| Friday, November 15, 2002 | 30A | Kind of silence | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| Monday, November 11, 2002 | 20A | Spine-tingling | Gregory E. Paul |
| Sunday, October 27, 2002 | 83D | Goosebump-raising | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| Tuesday, September 24, 2002 | 56D | Like a Stephen King novel | Sherry O. Blackard |
| Monday, September 02, 2002 | 68A | Spine-tingling | Norma Johnson and Nancy Salomon |
| Monday, July 15, 2002 | 15A | Spooky | John Leavy |
| Wednesday, May 29, 2002 | 21A | Unearthly | Alan Olschwang |
| Tuesday, May 14, 2002 | 64A | Spooky | Barry Callahan |
| Sunday, May 05, 2002 | 63D | Like H. P. Lovecraft's writing | Patrick Berry |
| Thursday, April 11, 2002 | 16A | Creepy | Greg Staples |
| Wednesday, March 13, 2002 | 6D | Spooky | Ed Early |
| Monday, February 25, 2002 | 50A | Like ghost stories | Christina Houlihan |
| Sunday, February 10, 2002 | 86A | Phantasmal | Harvey Estes & Nancy Salomon |
| Monday, January 07, 2002 | 16A | Spine-tingling | Peter Gordon |
| Wednesday, December 26, 2001 | 23A | Strange | Ed Early |
| Sunday, December 16, 2001 | 34D | Like "The X-Files" | Fred Piscop |
| Thursday, December 13, 2001 | 58A | Unnerving, perhaps | Manny Nosowsky |
| Wednesday, November 14, 2001 | 60A | Strange | Frank A. Longo |
| Tuesday, October 23, 2001 | 53D | Weird | Leonard Williams |
| Monday, October 15, 2001 | 16A | Spine-tingling | Holden Baker |
| Sunday, September 16, 2001 | 82A | Spooky | Bill Zais |
| Wednesday, July 11, 2001 | 44A | Chilling | Richard Silvestri |
| Sunday, January 28, 2001 | 99D | Hitchcockian | Jim Page |
| Tuesday, January 09, 2001 | 42A | Like much of Poe's work | Nick Grivas |
| Wednesday, December 13, 2000 | 56A | Shiver-producing | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Monday, November 27, 2000 | 25D | Spine-tingling | Nancy Salomon and Marjorie Berg |
| Wednesday, November 22, 2000 | 68A | Spine-tingling | Fred Piscop |
| Wednesday, November 15, 2000 | 64A | Like ghost sightings | Chuck Deodene |
| Thursday, September 14, 2000 | 52D | Mysterious | Joe DiPietro |
| Sunday, September 10, 2000 | 92A | Out of this world | Elizabeth C. Gorski |
| Tuesday, September 05, 2000 | 56D | Goosebump-raising | Chris Sallade |
| Sunday, August 20, 2000 | 137A | Supernatural | Charles M. Deber |
| Monday, August 07, 2000 | 15A | Spine-tingling | Nick Grivas |
| Saturday, June 17, 2000 | 18A | Uncanny | Rich Norris |
| Sunday, March 19, 2000 | 52D | Spooky | Greg Staples |
| Sunday, February 06, 2000 | 95A | Like Serling stories | Richard Hughes |
| Monday, January 31, 2000 | 53D | Spooky | Peter Gordon |
| Tuesday, December 14, 1999 | 65A | Giving goosebumps | Richard Chisholm |
| Wednesday, September 15, 1999 | 66A | Unearthly | Thomas W. Schier |
| Monday, September 06, 1999 | 21A | Spine-tingling | Manny Nosowsky |
| Monday, July 19, 1999 | 65A | Spooky | Gregory E. Paul |
| Sunday, February 07, 1999 | 107D | Like "The Shining," e.g. | Nancy Nicholson Joline |
| Friday, January 15, 1999 | 27A | Hitchcockian | John Wolting |
| Monday, January 04, 1999 | 41A | Like a haunted house | Gregory E. Paul |
| Wednesday, December 16, 1998 | 15A | Causing goose bumps | Nancy Salomon |
| Tuesday, November 10, 1998 | 64A | Weird | Diane C. Baldwin |
| Sunday, November 01, 1998 | 97A | Hitchcockian | Robert Malinow |
| Wednesday, October 21, 1998 | 57A | Spooky | Matt Gaffney |
| Sunday, May 24, 1998 | 59A | Like an empty ship at sea | Harvey Estes and Nancy Salomon |
| Tuesday, May 19, 1998 | 70A | Goosebump-raising | William S. Cotter |
| Sunday, April 26, 1998 | 59D | Out of this world | Fran and Lou Sabin |
| Wednesday, April 22, 1998 | 21A | Like Poe stories | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| Monday, March 16, 1998 | 21A | Like a haunted house | Mark Moldowsky |
| Monday, March 09, 1998 | 20A | Weird | Randall J. Hartman |
| Sunday, March 08, 1998 | 108A | Like "The X-Files" | Richard Silvestri |
| Saturday, February 21, 1998 | 21D | Chilling, in a way | Richard Hughes |
| Saturday, January 17, 1998 | 53D | Like a Dean Koontz novel | Rich Norris |
| Monday, January 12, 1998 | 62A | Otherworldly | John Greenman |
| Thursday, January 01, 1998 | 55A | Like "The X-Files" | Jim Page |
| Monday, December 01, 1997 | 28D | Strange | Mark Danna |
| Thursday, October 30, 1997 | 57A | Creepy | Cathy Millhauser |
| Sunday, October 05, 1997 | 105D | Spooky | Derrick Niederman |
| Monday, August 18, 1997 | 41A | Otherworldly | Joel D. Lafargue |
| Sunday, July 27, 1997 | 82D | Chilling | June Boggs |
| Monday, May 05, 1997 | 16A | Like "The Twilight Zone" episodes | Stephanie Spadaccini |
| Wednesday, April 30, 1997 | 46D | Chill-inducing | Brendan Emmett Quigley |
| Wednesday, March 19, 1997 | 57A | Spine-tingling | Trip Payne |
| Friday, January 24, 1997 | 16A | Like H. P. Lovecraft stories | D. J. Kahn |
| Tuesday, November 05, 1996 | 65A | Otherworldly | J. Farrell |
| Monday, September 02, 1996 | 29A | Spooky | F. Piscop |
| Tuesday, June 25, 1996 | 22A | Weird | Randall J. Hartman |
| Wednesday, June 05, 1996 | 14A | Almost too coincidental | G. R. Ferguson |
| Tuesday, May 21, 1996 | 22A | Like TV's "Tales From the Crypt" | J. Schmalzbach |
| Wednesday, March 27, 1996 | 31D | Weird | R. J. Hartman |
| Sunday, March 24, 1996 | 97D | Chilling | J. K. Brill |
| Wednesday, March 06, 1996 | 69A | Weird | N. S. Ross |
| Tuesday, February 06, 1996 | 59A | Spine-tingling | Randy Sowell |
| Thursday, January 11, 1996 | 51D | À la King? | B. Jorgensen |
| Wednesday, January 03, 1996 | 63A | Spine-tingling | W.R. Williams |
| Monday, December 18, 1995 | 15A | Creepy | Randall J. Hartman |
| Thursday, December 14, 1995 | 31D | Chilling | Matt Gaffney |
| Wednesday, October 25, 1995 | 37A | Creepy | Larry Nargi |
| Friday, October 20, 1995 | 52D | Raising goose pimples | Manny Nosowsky |
| Friday, September 22, 1995 | 30A | Like "The X-Files" | Jim Page |
| Tuesday, June 20, 1995 | 53D | Creepy | Jon Delfin |
| Wednesday, March 08, 1995 | 27D | Gooseflesh-making | Wayne Robert Williams |
| Wednesday, February 22, 1995 | 36D | Haunted | Wayne Robert Williams |
| Tuesday, January 31, 1995 | 50D | Halloweenlike | Albert J. Klaus |
| Monday, January 16, 1995 | 30D | Ghostlike | Walter Covell |
| Thursday, October 06, 1994 | 50A | Unearthly | Richard Silvestri |
| Monday, September 26, 1994 | 30A | Peculiar | Sidney L. Robbins |
| Friday, September 02, 1994 | 52D | Odd | Bryant White |
| Saturday, April 23, 1994 | 50D | Odd | Manny Nosowsky |
| Sunday, March 20, 1994 | 26D | Weird | Joel Davajan |
| Saturday, March 19, 1994 | 62A | Raising goose bumps | Manny Nosowsky |
| Sunday, March 06, 1994 | 66D | Spooky | Frances Hansen |
| Monday, February 07, 1994 | 44A | Weird | Sidney L. Robbins |
| Friday, February 04, 1994 | 25A | Like a wolf's howl | Joe Clonick |
| Wednesday, November 24, 1993 | 21A | Weird | Nancy S. Ross |