Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Arcane Anxieties: Phobias and Etymologies
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Alarm at laughter—when joy becomes the hunted
- 2. Mirror’s sinister reflection sparks this specific terror
- 4. Umbilical terror centered around the navel’s enigma
- 5. Fear disrobing the ablution ritual, ancient cleansing dread
- 8. Rooted fear of arboreal giants, timber trembling
- 10. Fear of touch, where contact conjures dread
Down
- 3. Apprehension at the presence of close kinfolk
- 6. Fear of blossoms—when nature’s gift becomes sinister
- 7. An aversion caused by foliar facial adornments
- 9. Avoidance due to prismatic terror, a spectrum of dread
- 11. Phobia of novelty, resisting all things fresh and strange
- 12. Fear of burial alive, echoing mortuary anxieties
- 13. Paranoia avoiding the vigor of youth’s uprising
- 14. Dread of ugliness, aesthetic aversion from Greek kakos
- 15. Irrational dread of ancient sorcery and witches’ rites
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