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Nocturnal Shades and Melancholy Echoes
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Heraldic term for black, often linked with mourning
  • 2. Act of darkening or making unclear, often metaphorical
  • 3. Threshold state between two existential conditions, often eerie
  • 5. Scientific study of bones, emblematic of mortality’s shadow
  • 6. One who finds solace in rainy, somber weather
  • 8. Relating to twilight’s dim and dusky light
  • 9. Pertaining to the river of the underworld, emblematic of darkness
  • 11. State of deep and serious gloom or melancholy
  • 13. Excessively mournful to a theatrical extreme
  • 14. Platform for a coffin, symbolizing death’s somber vigil
  • 16. Quality of partial darkness just before nightfall
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  • 4. Evening prayer invoking a quiet, contemplative gloom
  • 7. Deep darkness or gloom, from Latin for mist or fog
  • 10. Obscure and gloomy, akin to shadowed voids
  • 12. Historically considered a condition of deep pensive sadness
  • 15. Having the mournful character of a funeral
  • 17. Artistic technique emphasizing dramatic contrasts of light and dark
  • 18. Butterfly family often eliciting haunting beauty amid shadowy woods
  • 19. Approaching death, fading into oblivion
  • 20. Philosophy embracing endurance amid hardship and gloom

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