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Arcane Anxieties and Curious Carnalities
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. A rare fetish involving attraction to wooden percussion instruments
  • 2. Aversion to a mundane fastening item, often overlooked by experts
  • 3. An esoteric fetish involving romantic or sexual attraction during sleep
  • 4. Dread of shell fragments and broken pottery shards, archaeological fear
  • 6. An attraction to amputees, rare in paraphilic taxonomy
  • 10. Unusual attraction focused on the olfactory prominence of the face
  • 12. A specialized fetish linked to baldness and scalp exposure
  • 16. An existential fear stemming from premature burial or entombment
  • 19. An aversion to words or speaking, often overlooked lingual terror
Down
  • 5. Superstitious dread of a notorious number often linked to Friday
  • 7. Fear rooted in cleansing rituals, often impurities of water or washing
  • 8. Psychological terror of being trapped or enclosed within spaces
  • 9. Disquiet about pecuniary exchanges; aversion to financial transactions
  • 11. Attraction focused on tiny parasitic scalp dwellers
  • 13. Dread of stairs or steep inclines, metaphorical or literal elevation fear
  • 14. A fright tied to sacred or consecrated things, divine dread
  • 15. Irrational fear triggered by certain hues or color spectrums
  • 17. Fear inspired by ugliness or unattractiveness, aesthetic aversion
  • 18. A fetish involving soiling or saliva, from Latin for 'salt' or 'saliva'

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