Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Arcane Anxieties: Obscure Phobia Lexicon
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Revulsion to jellied substances, wobbly and amorphous
- 2. Mortuary nightmare—fear of being prematurely interred
- 3. Phobia centered on eyelids, the blinkers of perception
- 5. Aversion to the yellow spectrum, a chromatic dread
- 8. Unease from shadows cast by one’s own feet
- 12. Trepidation rooted in frozen precipitation, a winter’s dread
- 14. Paralyzing anxiety linked to weakness or physical frailty
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- 4. Pathological fear of pendulums, invoking Nietzsche's motif
- 6. Aversion to the vital red fluid coursing through veins
- 7. Irrational terror of wolves, evoking primal archetypes
- 9. Ancient terror of thunder and lightning disturbances
- 10. Fear derived from one's own mirrored reflections
- 11. Fear endemic to darkness, from Greek for obscurity
- 13. Fear of grown-together structures, from Greek for junction
- 15. Phobia of feathered fliers, a terror of the air
- 16. Rarity’s haunt: fear of events seldom encountered
- 17. Dread inspired by cumulus and cirrus formations aloft
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