| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| DIRESTRAITS | Great difficulty | |
| DIRE STRAITS | Great difficulty (4,7) | |
| CORNERED | In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay. | |
| ADO | Doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles. | |
| CORNER | To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument. | |
| HEAVILY | As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully. | |
| STRAIT | Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits. | |
| OBSTINACY | A fixedness in will, opinion, or resolution that can not be shaken at all, or only with great difficulty; firm and usually unreasonable adheren... | |