- INAJAM
- Having some trouble
- Needing help
- Stuck
- Tightly gridlocked
- Up the creek
- Needing bailing out
- Needing to be bailed out, perhaps
- Up the creek, so to speak
- Facing trouble
- Against the wall
- Needing assistance
- Fixed, so to speak
- Surrounded by standstill traffic
- In need of bailing out, perhaps
- Looking to be helped out, maybe
- Stuck during rush hour, say
- Up the creek (h,h)
- Experiencing serious traffic
- Having trouble
- Needing to be bailed out, maybe
- Needing to be bailed out ... or where 20-, 27-, 45- and 51-Across may be found
- With one's back against the wall
- Really stuck
- Needing rescue
- Needing urgent assistance
- Trapped
- Having trouble: Colloq.
- Beset with trouble
- Faced with difficulties
- Embarrassingly stuck
- Facing big trouble
- Facing difficulty
- Over a barrel
- Strapped
- Besieged from all sides
- Unfortunately situated
