Related Clues:
- Scaled-back thing?
- Shriek elicitor
- Fabulous beast
- Large and grotesque animal
- Strange mentors for the imaginary creature
- Large, mytical creature
- Cold-blooded animal like lizard or snake
- Ugly and frightening beast as in 8 Across
- Ogre, demon
- Turtle or snake say
- Something abnormally large and powerful
- Snake or crocodile, say
- Large and frightening imaginary creature
- Let this get ripe in the scales
- A pert lie from a snake, for one