Affliction for many first responders, in brief Crossword Clue

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Affliction for many first responders, in brief Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

AFFLICTION (noun)
1. a cause of great suffering and distress
2. a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health
FIRST (noun)
1. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
2. the time at which something is supposed to begin
FIRST (adjective)
1. indicating the beginning unit in a series
2. serving to set in motion
FIRST (adverb)
1. prominently forward
2. before anything else

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Across

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15. Baroque instrument

16. Long-handled gardening tool or immoral pleasure seeker, per contestant Ken Jennings on "Jeopardy!" (incorrectly)

17. Walking-around money for Pavarotti?

19. Veto

20. Whistling stickup man on "The Wire"

21. Cry of frustration

22. McGwire's rival in 1990s M.L.B.

23. Hajj destination

25. Baseball team formerly known as the Colt .45s

27. Preacher's gift?

29. Fly catcher

30. Kind of a drag?

31. Parrot

32. Perceptive

35. Icy passage to Antarctica's McMurdo Station

37. Get ___ (shine scholastically)

38. Muscle exercised with a shoulder press, familiarly

40. Billionaire Musk

41. 5 and 8 go into 42, for example?

45. Fan of "I" statements

46. Dissect with a diagram

47. "___, actually ..."

48. Start of many first-year course names

50. Lawman who got out of Dodge

54. 60 minuti

55. Local leader is prohibited?

57. Clear

58. Bum around Europe

59. Intentional creases

60. Org. targeting Walter White on "Breaking Bad"

61. Changes the locks?

62. Acted all crabby?

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Down

1. Programming statement that can result in spaghetti code

2. Excuse me ...

3. Totenberg of public radio

4. People who get walked all over

5. Bit of a laugh

6. Not separated

7. Throwing style

8. Bit of a lark

9. Lady-killer

10. Machiavellian, in a way

11. Answer to "Why's your report card in the trash?"

12. Written with venom

13. Oil, they say

18. Birthplace of Dr Pepper

22. Fremont and Folsom in S.F., for two

24. México's Tabasco, Jalisco and others

26. Guardians of bushido tradition

27. National drink of Puerto Rico

28. Two, for many a putt-putt hole

29. It's a zoo out there

32. Blue stop sign?

33. Third in order

34. Resident of Rivendell, in Tolkien

36. Dark and sultry, like a femme fatale's gaze

39. Comes on little cat feet

42. ___ death do us part

43. Comedian Jimmy

44. Opposite of 39-Down

49. Where to look if you're looking for LUV (i.e., Southwest Airlines)

51. Fussbudgety, say

52. Mindless repetition

55. "Spy vs. Spy" magazine

56. Who said "I'm so mean I make medicine sick"

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