- AGONY
- Extreme pain
- Anguish
- Intense distress
- Suffering
- The__ and the Ecstasy
- Torment
- Great suffering
- Extreme suffering
- Hell
- Screaming pain
- Intense suspense, say
- Ecstasy's literary partner
- Torture
- Ecstasy's opposite
- Pain
- Pain and suffering
- Thrill's sporting opposite
- Prolonged suffering
- Miserable feeling
- Intense suffering
- Serious suffering
- Excruciating pain
- Listening to an insufferable bore, often
- Sitting through a bad violin recital, say
- Awful feeling
- It's a major pain
- Severe suffering
- Intense suspense, e.g.
- Ecstasy's counterpart
- Painful ordeal
- Intense pain
- It's a big pain
- Into the Woods song
- ... the __ of defeat
- Prolonged pain
- Intense feeling
- Major pain
- Terrible pain
- ... the __ of defeat: "Wide World of Sports" phrase
- Extreme distress
- Title feeling "beyond power of speech," in an "Into the Woods" song
- Into the Woods song sung by two princes
- Great pain
- . . . and the __ of defeat
- Great distress
- Deep distress
- Opposite of ecstasy
- ___ aunt (British advice columnist)
- The thrill of victory and the ___ of defeat
- Famous column in London's "Thunderer.”
- ___ column.
- ___ column in British papers.
- ___ column, for personals in British newspapers.
- Distress simulated by wrestlers.
- Pang.
- Sheer discomfort.
- ___ column for personals.
- Acute distress.
- The ___ and the Ecstasy.
- Distress.
- The ___ and the Ecstacy.
- Kind of newspaper column.
- Ecstasy's companion
- Ecstasy's partner
- Travail
- Antithesis of ecstasy
- Convulsive struggle
- Ecstasy's antithesis
- Extreme misery
- Defeated one's feeling?
- The ___ and the Ecstasy: Stone
- The ___ and the Ecstasy: I. Stone
- Throes and woes
- Kind of column
- It hurts
- Sitting through a bad piano recital, e.g.
- Violent struggle
- A long, amateurish piano recital, maybe
- Unending pain
- Awful struggle
- There is no greater ___ than bearing an untold story inside you: Maya Angelou
- Song from Sondheim's "Into the Woods"
- Hellish suffering
- You suffer when you're in it
- Waiting, for the impatient, say
- State nobody wants to live in
- Having one's wisdom teeth pulled, e.g.
- What waiting for overdue results can be
- Sitting next to a constantly crying baby on a cross-country flight, maybe
- The ___ and the Ecstasy (biographical novel about Michelangelo)
- The thrill of victory … and the ___ of defeat ("Wide World of Sports" catchphrase)
- See 55-Across
- Misery
- Breaking Benjamin "Dear ___"
- There is no greater ___ than bearing an untold story inside you (Angelou)
- Defeat may bring it
- Word that comes from a Greek term meaning "the struggle to win a contest"
- 'The _____ and the Ecstasy
- Cause for contortions
- That tortured feeling
- Ecstasy opposite
- ... the ___ of defeat
- True pain
- Severe pain
- U-turn from ecstasy
- Unrelenting pain
- Hard going
- The ____ and the Ecstasy
- Extreme emotion
- Excruciation
- Emotion in defeat, sometimes
- Tortured feeling
- Counterpart of ecstasy
- Heartbreak, maybe
- Feeling produced from cringe comedy, maybe
- Mental torment
- 10 on the pain scale
- Significant suffering
- Serious pain
- Cause of writhing, perhaps
