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Obscure Anxieties and Arcane Fears
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
  • 1. Fear as cold as winter’s grasp, snow’s oppressive chill
  • 2. Lunatic terror when the pale orb governs the night
  • 3. Reptilian dread, scaled silence moving in the grass
  • 4. Hostility toward youths, an age-old psychological enigma
  • 6. Unease among leafy sentinels, rooted giants’ fright
  • 7. Dread of hues and pigments that paint the world
  • 9. Paranoia prompted by flora, plants as foes unseen
  • 10. Aversion to occupational activity or labor’s grasp
  • 11. Pathological terror of failure, a perfectionist’s bane
  • 15. Anxiety triggered by sudden or loud acoustic assault
Down
  • 5. Unlucky dread of a sinister ancient number, sixty-six
  • 8. Irrational dread of cleansing rituals, a foe of hygiene
  • 12. Aversion to all things new and unnervingly foreign
  • 13. Fear derived from the color of ripe wheat or gold
  • 14. Fear of premature internment, where cryptic silence reigns
  • 16. Petal phobia: terror sown amidst blossoms and blooms
  • 17. Shadowy fright: anxiety in the absence of light
  • 18. Trepidation of ugliness, grotesque forms unsettling

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