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Esoteric Lexical Curiosities Challenge
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Hospitable especially to strangers in classical rhetoric
  • 2. Intricately complex or devious, akin to ancient imperial politics
  • 3. Mournful to the extreme, like a gothic poet’s lament
  • 4. Beyond the sea, also describing a deep blue pigment’s hue
  • 5. Delicately translucent, evoking silken veils in literature
  • 6. Highly fertile or intellectually productive, as a scholar’s mind
  • 11. Deadly subtle, like a clandestine toxin’s effect
  • 12. Optimistically red-cheeked or confident in the face of adversity
  • 16. Unsteadily wavering, as a Renaissance dancer’s hesitant step
  • 17. Excessively passionate or fervent in devotion or cause
Down
  • 7. Prone to corruption, like a bribable official’s disposition
  • 8. Wishing harm or evil in twisted juridical terminology
  • 9. Commonplace yet underlying daily occurrences in life
  • 10. Lacking voice, as described in clinical otolaryngology
  • 13. Stubbornly resistant as an unyielding philosophical argument
  • 14. Dark and misty, borrowed from Latin for a gloomy atmosphere
  • 15. Relating to the now-defunct Balkan federation's adjective form
  • 18. Ghostly and ethereal, resembling a spectral apparition
  • 19. Pertaining to unusually vivid and detailed mental images

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