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Phobias and Paranoia: Lexicon of Anxieties
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Across
  • 1. Prickly dread of spiny sea creatures or hedgehogs
  • 2. Fear that engulfs as darkness descends
  • 3. A formal synonym for anxious apprehension
  • 4. A fabricated term hinting fear of stars — beware the void above (cryptic star-related fear)
  • 5. Meta-fear: dread of having fears themselves
  • 7. A persistent and irrational dread of something
  • 9. Unjustified suspicion woven by the mind’s fabric
  • 11. An ironic twist: fear tied up in hairstyle?
  • 15. Nostalgic fear for environmental loss—eco-anxiety cousin
  • 18. Obsession with death’s shadow looming near
  • 19. Sudden loss of muscle control linked to fear-induced narcolepsy
Down
  • 6. Fear of the vast, unknowable ocean depths
  • 8. Stem suggesting phobia, start of complicated fears
  • 10. Pharmaceutical hope against the grip of fear
  • 12. Rabies-induced terror related to water ingestion
  • 13. Vertigo’s sibling terror of dizzying heights
  • 14. One who spreads fear as a tool or plague
  • 16. Threat perceived with lurking, ominous intent
  • 17. State shadowed by a fear of hope’s absence
  • 20. Physical manifestation often wrought by terror

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