| Grim |
| Awful |
| Acute |
| Fatal |
| Dismal |
| Tragic |
| Extreme |
| Fearful |
| Urgent! |
| Ominous |
| Ruinous |
| Drastic |
| Dreaded |
| Terrible |
| Dreadful |
| Horrific |
| Horrible |
| Pressing |
| Critical |
| Perilous |
| Menacing |
| Grievous |
| Fearsome |
| Alarming |
| Appalling |
| Frightful |
| Desperate |
| Harrowing |
| Grave ____ |
| Horrendous |
| Disastrous |
| Ill-boding |
| Calamitous |
| Apocalyptic |
| Cataclysmic |
| ___ straits |
| Very urgent |
| Threatening |
| Superserious |
| Very serious |
| ___ serious? |
| Catastrophic |
| C'est à ___ |
| Kind of need |
| Looking grim |
| In __ straits |
| Life or death |
| Of serious risk |
| Terribly urgent |
| Type of warning |
| Word with peril |
| Really dreadful |
| Nearly hopeless |
| Kind of straits |
| Some predictions |
| Straits modifier |
| Not just serious |
| Not looking good |
| Extremely urgent |
| More than serious |
| Emergency-related |
| Kind of emergency |
| Extremely serious |
| Foreboding trouble |
| Presaging disaster |
| Like some straits? |
| Urgently desperate |
| Seemingly hopeless |
| Like some warnings |
| Desperately urgent |
| Fraught with peril |
| ___ Straits of rock |
| Very serious indeed |
| Hardly looking good |
| Portending disaster |
| Potentially ruinous |
| Extremely worrisome |
| Fraught with danger |
| Fearful, as "straits |
| Modifier for straits |
| Rock's _____ Straits |
| Serve up some gossip |
| Of the utmost concern |
| Voir ___ (juror exam) |
| Desperate, as straits |
| Potentially disastrous |
| Like some consequences |
| Desperate or calamitous |
| ___ Wolf" Grateful Dead |
| Desperate, as a warning |
| Like some circumstances |
| ___ Straits (rock group) |
| Very serious, as straits |
| Grim, grave, or grievous |
| Desperate, as a situation |
| Calamitous, like a threat |
| Desperate (circumstances) |
| Foreboding, as a forecast |
| Dreadful, as consequences |
| In __ straits (desperate) |
| Dreadful, as circumstances |
| Fraught with extreme danger |
| Needing immediate attention |
| Desperate, as circumstances |
| In __ straits (needing help) |
| Like desperate circumstances |
| Sultans of Swing" ___ Straits |
| Requiring immediate attention |
| Money for Nothing" ___ Straits |
| Word with need or consequences |
| __ straits (difficult position) |
| Desperate position, ... straits |
| Not looking good, as a situation |
| ___ Straits ("Walk of Life" band) |
| Not looking good, to say the least |
| Like some bears' market predictions |
| ___ Straits ("Brothers in Arms" band) |
| Fraught with danger, as circumstances |
| --- Straits ("Sultans of Swing" group) |
| ___ Straits ("Money for Nothing" band) |
| ___ straits (state of extreme distress) |
| Dr. ___, producer of 50 Cent's "In Da Club |
| Fraught with danger, as some circumstances |
| Descriptive of some undesirable consequences |
| ___ Straits (band whose lead singer was Mark Knopfler) |