Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Esoteric Anxieties and Arcane Fears
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Anxiety from grammatical or social faux pas
- 3. Aversion to bats—masked in old folklore wings
- 6. Apprehension towards a certain feathered farmyard sentinel
- 9. Though astronomical in origin, fear of this celestial alignment haunts some
- 12. Meta-terror: the fear of fear itself
- 13. Paralyzing dread of disorder, both mental and physical
Down
- 2. An all-encompassing dread without a single cause
- 4. Fear of forgetting, or being forgotten in memory’s abyss
- 5. The dread of things that disappear too quickly
- 7. Obsession with death’s shadow and decayed remains
- 8. Disquiet at laughter—when joy becomes terror
- 10. Timidity triggered by the sound or sight of wooden logs
- 11. Painful terror triggered by a simple needle’s prick
- 14. Fear of rash eruptions—a dermatological dread
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