| Accented syllable |
| A poetry form/With seventeen syllables/And only three lines |
| Drill instructor's syllable |
| Four-letter fruit pronounced in three syllables |
| Scary genre |
| Scat singer's syllable |
| A poem like this / Of 17 syllables / Split 5-7-5 |
| Questioning syllables |
| Accented syllable in poetry |
| Scary sound in a dark alley |
| Syllables following "Strike the harp and join the chorus |
| Scary music icon who (fittingly) released the album "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)"? |
| Forgot the lyrics" syllable |
| Musical refrain syllables |
| Scary stingers |
| Two-part David Bowie song from "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) |
| Add syllables of revulsion? |
| A few syllables from Santa |
| How's that again?" syllables |
| Omission of the last syllable of a word. |
| Jimmy Stewart syllables |
| Actress Faris of the "Scary Movie" movies |
| Syllables from a laugher |
| Are you chicken?" taunt syllable |
| ... about a scary lamb? |
| City with a seemingly contradictory two-syllable name |
| Omission of a syllable |
| An old syllable meaning "before |
| Three-syllable woman's name meaning "gift |
| Uncertain syllables |