- DIRE
- Critical
- Macabre
- Sinister
- Straits or consequences preceder
- Urgent
- Harrowing
- Kind of straits
- Like some straits
- Serious
- Very urgent
- Dreadful, as circumstances
- Serious, as circumstances
- Worse than bad
- Pressing
- Disastrous
- Ominous
- Horrible
- Looking grim
- Really bad
- Calamitous
- Dreadful
- Desperate
- Catastrophic
- Voir __
- Modifier for straits
- Nearly hopeless
- Horrendous
- Worrisome
- Likely to end badly
- Cataclysmic
- Seemingly hopeless
- Extremely serious
- Not hopeful
- Needing a miracle to work out
- Unlikely to have a positive outcome
- Urgently desperate
- Threatening
- ___ straits
- Desperately urgent
- Extremely urgent
- In ___ straits
- Foreboding disaster
- Extremely worrisome
- Fraught with danger
- Terrible
- Life-or-death
- Fearsome
- Fraught with peril
- Not looking good, to say the least
- ___ Straits ("Brothers in Arms" band)
- Grave
- Grim, grave, or grievous
- Very serious
- Terrifying
- Extreme
- Concerning
- Awful
- Rock band ___ Straits
- Rock's ___ Straits
- Desperate, as straits
- Dreadful, as consequences
- Like some consequences
- More than serious
- Like some bears' market predictions
- Like desperate circumstances
- Acute
- Very serious, as straits
- Like desperate straits
- Boding disaster
- Potentially ruinous
- Very serious indeed
- Bleak
- Quite urgent
- Potentially disastrous
- In __ straits
- Drastic
- __ straits (difficult position)
- Needing immediate attention
- Of the utmost concern
- In __ straits (desperate)
- In __ straits (needing help)
- Grim
- Foreboding, as a forecast
- Of serious risk
- Perilous
- Fearful, as "straits"
- Frightful
- Ruinous
- Very worrisome
- Highly worrisome
- Needing urgent attention
- Overriding
- Of urgent import
- Rock music's ___ Straits
- Ill-boding.
- Portentous.
- Fatal.
- Boding ill.
- Foreboding.
- C'est-a- ___ (that is to say): Fr.
- Oppressive.
- Voir ___, oath taken by jurors.
- Dismal.
- To say: Fr.
- Voir ___, juror's oath.
- Most acute.
- Baleful
- Some predictions
- C'est à ___
- Fearful
- Word with peril
- ___ Straits, rock group
- Menacing
- Word with need or consequences
- Tragic
- Voir ___ (juror exam)
- ___ Straits of rock
- Straits modifier
- Terribly urgent
- Rock's _____ Straits
- Like 20-Across, often
- Not looking good
- Apocalyptic
- Horrific
- Kind of need
- Foreboding trouble
- Presaging disaster
- Not just serious
- Grievous
- Emergency-related
- Descriptive of some undesirable consequences
- Requiring immediate attention
- Superserious
- Not looking good at all
- Warning of disaster
- Potentially catastrophic
- Sultans of Swing ___ Straits
- Money for Nothing ___ Straits
- ___ Wolf Grateful Dead
- Threatening disaster
- Critical, as circumstances
- Deadly serious
- _____ Straits ("Sultans of Swing" group)
- Calamitous, like a threat
- Fraught with extreme danger
- _____ Straits (rock group)
- Like some circumstances
- Desperate, as circumstances
- Portending disaster
- Desperate, as a warning
- Fraught with danger, as circumstances
- Alarming
- Fraught with danger, as some circumstances
- Type of warning
- Beyond serious
- Urgent, as circumstances
- Dangerously serious
- Desperate, as need
- Like grave circumstances
- Like a bad situation
- Terribly serious
- Horribly urgent
- Desperate, as a situation
- Hardly looking good
- Kind of emergency
- Really dreadful
- In ___ straits (desperate)
- Really serious
- Super-urgent
- Word before "straits" or "consequences"
- In ___ need (desperate)
- Really urgent
- Serious in a bad way
- Highly urgent
- Rock's __ Straits
- Sultans of Swing band ___ Straits
- Dr. ___, producer of 50 Cent's "In Da Club"
- Appalling
- Presaging bad consequences
- Pessimistic
