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Jump Scares

Lake Eerie

An error was corrected at 1:57AM on Saturday TIMEMIT. 34 should in the fourth cell from the right in its row.

Uh-oh! Clues (which are ordered by length, but otherwise randomly ordered) have all been subjected to jump scares. One word interrupts the clue and provides no value whatsoever to the clue. In proper grid order, these words may help reveal some actual jump scares that will need to be sorted out.

Clues

  • Spooky final parts of The Lady Vanishes included moment of hesitation (4, var.)
  • Give a negative review after taking in Love Kills' central plot (4)
  • One thousand discussed changing James, who wrote about a death in his family (4)
  • On the radio, I will 1-Ac. place for Dr. Moreau (4)
  • Cry "It's boring!" after first part of Bleak House (4)
  • Support owner with new target for Freddy, often (4)
  • Bogus conclusion not included, Natural Born Killers director's meandering style (4)
  • Ostrich egg on upturned brown rock, primarily (4)
  • After bit of lead is found inside weapons' shafts (5)
  • Some before game eating the last thing the Greeks might provide? (5)
  • Soldier of Fortune article ending in tragedy (one kind of killing) (5)
  • Pointy metal things missing around sink's edges, containers (5)
  • Very much like a party concerning sin (5)
  • "Deadly Strings" recently resampled clip (5)
  • A bird that only says one thing near a taco vendor's store (5)
  • Place where things might be kept by decapitated arachnid missing its tail (5)
  • Machines go crazy (but not in primary 32-Dn.) (6)
  • Green stuff was revolting with three-toed sloth swallowing bug's head (6)
  • Place to store decapitated rodents, zebra heart, bovine guts (6)
  • Manuscript about an insect...one puzzled insect with a deadly mating ritual (6)
  • Somewhere in Colorado, post office conceals mangled blue hearts (6)
  • Discovers religious crime...there's your revelation (6)
  • What? In one part of the movie, elks get something new on their feet (6)
  • Release staff toting a red lamb (6)
  • Medium showing anger after how Maria might be introduced...it's ordinary (7)
  • Big game for many royal people embroiled in calculation (7)
  • Recovers large ball of rock, snow, and dust filled with Sadako's head following Ring (5 2)
  • Saw and others' titular chants having a crummy ending (7)
  • Prep guard to return form of ID (7)
  • Focused on new set by nine (7)
  • One beer around 5 after company shows places you might lurk (7)
  • Perhaps wave goodbye as boy disappears from top school, eaten by disgusting grue (7)
  • Going on and on, acquiring wobbly sea legs (7)
  • In Paris, last one to refuse is getting red hands (7)
  • Jason getting naked, left after grotesque spooks, avoiding people (7)
  • This is of concern for a costume designer: a polka-dotted top, tough skin and colorful bottom (7)
  • Topper's cinematic transition is solved with a small fix (8)
  • Ugly person's action involving its mouth, devouring problem child's plaything, ripping off its head (8)
  • I make sounds like a kitten covered by a large piece of plastic for Poe's dance (4 4)
  • Awful scare surrounded by shout in a ring that's green (8)
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