| Rating | Solver | Clue |
|---|---|---|
| NARROWS | Straits | |
| DYKES | Narrow straits | |
| NECKS | Narrow straits | |
| DESPERATE | In dire straits | |
| LEFTINTHELURCH | Abandoned in difficult straits | |
| DIRE | Rock group, ... Straits | |
| SOUNDS | They’re heard to be in straits | |
| ARTISTS | Picasso and Monet in dire straits | |
| TIRAN | Narrow straits between sinai and arabian peninsulas | |
| WILLYWAW | A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan. | |
| FLEECE | To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. | |
| DOWN | A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war. | |
| STRAIT | Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits. | |
| FATA MORGANA | A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily. | |