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Arcane Phobias and Etymological Enigmas
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Fear of beautiful women, Greek etymology blending 'beauty' and 'female'
  • 4. Dread derived from Greek for 'hand,' avoidance of tactile greeting
  • 7. An aversion named for a Latin root, fear of cleansing's ritual
  • 9. Puncture panic, needle-prick fear traced to Latin origins
  • 11. Chromatic dread linked to the yellow spectrum, lemon-like origins
  • 12. Unusual dread of taste or flavors, rooted in Greek ‘geo’
  • 13. Mortuary terror of premature entombment, graveyard origin
  • 14. From Greek for 'unmarried,' fear entwined with marital solitude
  • 16. Etymologically social dread, aversion to communal interactions
  • 18. Neologism signifying anxiety from severed digital tether
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  • 2. Fear of foreign tongues or languages, complex linguistic anxiety
  • 3. Specter-shunning dread, rooted in ancient Greek for 'apparition'
  • 5. Modern unease with virtual realms and digitized presence
  • 6. Skepticism of color itself, a rare pigment pathology
  • 8. Dermatological dread originating in Greek for 'touch'
  • 10. Fear named after the moon goddess, ancient celestial dread
  • 15. Aversion born from Greek for 'failure,' dread of mishaps
  • 17. Complex societal fear toward the fleeting vitality of youth
  • 19. Greek-rooted fear, the home itself becomes hostile terrain

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