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Answer for the clue "Spreader of panic ", 11 letters:
scaremonger

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Someone who spreads worrying rumours or needlessly alarms people. vb. To spread worrying rumours.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who spreads frightening rumors and stirs up trouble [syn: stirrer ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also scare-monger , 1888, from scare (n.) + monger (n.).

Usage examples of scaremonger.

I were to heed every scaremonger, I should get but little amusement out of life.

There are people, not scaremongers, who know what they are talking about, and they say that there is a force behind the scenes which aims at nothing less then the disintegration of civilisation.

It might please pessimists to believe that England would be cowed into submission by air-raids, but the most inveterate scaremongers hesitated to assert that armies with their indispensable artillery and equipment could be dropped on British soil from the skies.