Answer: TEASE
TEASE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 171 times.
Referring Clues:
- Razz
 - Flirt
 - Rib
 - Needle
 - Poke fun at
 - Fluff up
 - Bait, say
 - Josh
 - Make one's hair stand on end?
 - Make fun of
 - Coquette
 - Hardly the prim sort
 - Flirt with
 - Fluff up, as hair
 - Chaff
 - Lolita, e.g.
 - Pick on
 - Ride
 - Make frizzy
 - Bait
 - Kid
 - Pull one's leg
 - Fluff, in a way
 - Get on
 - Play with
 - Twit
 - Tempt
 - Bedevil
 - Comb the "wrong" way
 - Build a beehive?
 - Mock
 - Be a coquette
 - Badger
 - Put on a hair-raising display?
 - Try to rile
 - Bug
 - Provoke
 - Promo piece
 - Movie highlight
 - Hairdresser's offering
 - Irritate mischievously
 - Vamp
 - Comb backwards
 - Play the coquette
 - Take a playful poke at
 - Do a hair-raising job?
 - Make frizzy, as hair
 - Do a hair-raising task?
 - Rag
 - Give body to, as hair
 - Tantalize
 - Do a bang-up job on?
 - Rub it in, say
 - Have fun with
 - Kid around with
 - Kid with
 - Engage in badinage
 - Rib at a roast
 - Do a do
 - Leave wanting more
 - Rib or roast
 - Annoying one
 - Say ''Nyah, nyah!'' to
 - Irritate
 - Be hair-raising?
 - Backcomb
 - Vex
 - Display poor sportsmanship
 - Do hair-raising work?
 - Try to get one's goat
 - Poke fun at, on the playground
 - Act the coquette
 - Fluff, as bangs
 - Add body to a do
 - Display poor sportsmanship, in a way
 - Fluff hair
 - Kid a kid
 - Sing ''nyah-nyah'' to
 - Taunt
 - Fluff bangs
 - "Coming up next" commercial, e.g.
 - Playful flirt
 - Purposely stay just out of reach
 - Playful tormentor
 - Comb backward
 - Show just a little bit of leg, say
 - Add body to hair
 - Plump a hairdo
 - Lead on
 - Back-comb
 - Flirtatious one
 - Mock in the schoolyard
 - One likely to get men's attention
 - Purposely keep just out of reach
 - Josh with
 - Jest with
 - Sing "nyah-nyah" to
 - Say "Nyah, nyah!" to
 - Advertiser's ploy
 - Torment
 - Poke fun
 - Harass
 - Provoke jokingly
 - Provoke, perhaps
 - Style, as hair into a bouffant
 - Partial preview, often
 - Call names
 - Pester
 - Make sport of
 - Rival of 13-Across
 - Badger in jest
 - Flirty one
 - Joke around with
 - Call playful names, say
 - Mimic Mae West
 - Offer with no intention of giving, say
 - Play pranks
 - Annoy persistently
 - Dangle a carrot, say
 - Kid or rib
 - Work on hair, maybe
 - Needle or rib
 - Back-comb hair
 - Say "nyah, nyah," say
 - Ridicule
 - Give a hard time to
 - Gently mock
 - Style, in a way
 - Heckle
 - Comb, in a way
 - Bring up an embarrassing story about, say
 - Comb the wrong way
 - Fluff, as hair
 - Mess with, as hair or siblings
 - Flirty sort
 - Josh or rib
 - Annoy
 - Mock playfully
 - Pick on playfully
 - Toy with
 - Annoy playfully
 - Give a "big hair" look to
 - Bullyrag
 - Say "Nyah nyah!" to
 - Homophone of the puzzle's theme
 - Bring discontent to
 - Chivy
 - Flirt with, perhaps
 - Tantalise
 - Playfully taunt
 - Fragmentary bit
 - Needle verbally
 - Provoke playfully
 - Ridicule and torment
 - Trifle with
 - What movie trailers do
 - Act coquettish to
 - Mock, in a way
 - Needle mischievously
 - Lightly roast
 - Play an April Fool's joke on, say
 - What good movie trailers do
 - Make blush, maybe
 - Comb toward the scalp
 - Rag on
 - Gibe
 - Flirt with, say
 - Be a pest, in a way
 - Give hints about, but not more
 - Pick on, in a way
 - Make big bangs?
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - October 15, 2025
 - New York Times - June 27, 2025
 - USA Today - June 25, 2025
 - LA Times - January 08, 2025
 - USA Today - January 02, 2025
 - USA Today - December 02, 2024
 - New York Times - June 06, 2024
 - LA Times - May 29, 2024
 - USA Today - May 27, 2024
 - LA Times - May 10, 2024
 - USA Today - February 07, 2024
 - New York Times - February 06, 2024
 - New York Times - January 26, 2024
 - LA Times - January 22, 2024
 - USA Today - January 16, 2024
 - LA Times - October 11, 2023
 - LA Times - September 27, 2023
 - LA Times - August 10, 2023
 - LA Times - July 01, 2023
 - New York Times - April 10, 2023
 
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