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Arcane Anxieties and Cryptic Fears
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Timber terror — fear of arboreal beings rooted in folklore and natural mythos
  • 2. Chromatic anxiety, a frightful aversion to the hue of ripe dawn or cowardly gold
  • 3. Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth, nonsmooth culinary dread
  • 4. Habitus horror related to reflections; a self-image dread wrapped in superstitions
  • 6. Lunar anxiety; the apprehension of Earth's silver satellite and nocturnal myths
  • 8. Vegetative vexation marked by fear of plants, entwined with ancient superstition
  • 9. Aversion to clustered holes, invoking ancient survival instincts from perforated stimuli
  • 15. Meta-phobia: a terror of experiencing fear itself, a recursive mental trap
  • 17. Aesthetic dread of ugliness, a subjective nightmare of visual discord
  • 18. Pronounced dread of novelty or anything freshly introduced to one's routine
Down
  • 5. Ironic dread of long words—fear codified in a sesquipedalian paradox
  • 7. Hygiene horror; the irrational fear of bathing and washing rituals
  • 10. Winter's wrath sensed in dread of snow, icy crystal terror encoded deep
  • 11. Not a phobia but a trick: spots seen with closed eyes, often mistaken for fear stimulus
  • 12. Skybound terror — dread of clouds and their looming vaporous forms
  • 13. Petal panic; a botanical aversion to flowers and their floral presence
  • 14. Fear conjured from excessive velocity or rapid motion in time or space
  • 16. The dark fear of opening one's eyes, an anxiety of visual awakening
  • 19. Workplace wretchedness manifesting as dread of labor or exertion

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