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Answer for the clue "An evil spirit ", 5 letters:
bogey

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE double ▪ His round of 70 was marred only by a double bogey at the twelfth and a bogey at the thirteenth. ▪ He made a double bogey on fourteen and a bogey on fifteen. ▪ Ross Drummond opened with a double bogey but ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in golfing, c.1891, originally "number of strokes a good player is supposed to need for a given hole or course;" later, "score one over par" (1946); from the same source as bogey (n.1), on the notion of a "phantom" opponent, represented by the "ground score." ...

Usage examples of bogey.

I see for Colonel Bogey perhaps the basic stores and tool pack which are given to a star-world settler joining a colony.

Although the man was an enemy and would have to be killed, Bethschant was suddenly glad Colonel Bogey had managed to survive.

The barge and the false rendezvous was the ruse by which we secured the Terran Colonel Bogey fur the sport.

The Pretender cares nothing about Colonel Bogey, and only Kanizar will have a loss to suffer.

Empress Miram and her children were on the barge that took Colonel Bogey to Avida.

Xzan that if the Pretender kills Colonel Bogey while attacking the Kanizars, he forfeits the game.

Colonel Bogey several times had he chosen, and the Colonel would never have known the mode or reason of his death.

If this injury had been accidental, he hated to contemplate what Colonel Bogey could do to his enemies by design.

His previous experience told him Colonel Bogey was unlikely to have done such a thing without good reason.

If the causeway gave him easy passage to the island, it would also permit Colonel Bogey and his strange weapons to make the crossing.

The native considered it prudent to find out what changes this new factor would introduce before he engaged in the risks of killing Bogey and capturing the pod.

Avida had an evil reputation, but he was not sure whether Camin Sher, the wildlife, or the mysterious Colonel Bogey was the factor most to be feared.

Colonel Bogey had had the foresight to burn a large area of forest clear of nesting wildlife, and thus had not encountered the problem.

Colonel Bogey had something hidden in those trees which the native had never understood, but which certainly formed some sort of trap.

Perhaps the Terrans might even fend him someone terrible, like Colonel Bogey, to make the forests cringe and the animals die magically at the touch of a wire.