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Chronometric Enigmas of Peculiar Alarmry
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  • 1. Self-igniting substances—imagine an incendiary trigger for waking up
  • 2. Relating to twilight consciousness, used metaphorically for gentle alarms
  • 3. Ancient tree-ring based method hinting at time's passage, here a pun on alarm’s age
  • 8. Astronomical feature tracked by some clocks affecting alarm timing
  • 10. Pertaining to rigid immobility—what some alarm clocks try to disrupt
  • 11. Fuel once vital for certain early illumination-triggered alarms
  • 13. The intricate components working in tandem to activate odd alarms
  • 15. Device producing oscillations instead of sound to rouse sleepers discreetly
  • 16. Electromechanical actuator that physically triggers a bell or ringer
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  • 4. Chemical signal, conceptually used in experimental scent-based alarms
  • 5. Volcanic cloud-inspired term—suggesting explosive or rapid wake-up effects
  • 6. An odd clock that belongs to a different timeline than the present
  • 7. Alarms using spectacular combustion elements for flamboyant awakenings
  • 9. Emitting light without heat; a feature of certain night-visible alarms
  • 12. Hypothetical device exploiting quantum states to signal wakefulness
  • 14. Colloquial term for a timepiece, often vintage and mechanical
  • 17. Pertaining to the sense exploited by most conventional alarm clocks
  • 18. A device targeting nerves to jolt users awake via subtle electrical pulses

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