Anxious period in proceedings (6,4)

I believe the answer is:

trying time

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'proceedings' is the definition.
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'anxious period' is the wordplay.
'anxious' becomes 'trying' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'period' becomes 'time period' (period of time).
'trying'+'time'='TRYING TIME'

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