Predicament
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

JAM
A dense crowd of people

FIX
A determination of the place where something is; "he got a good fix on the target"

KIN
A person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family"

LOT
Anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random; "the luck of the draw"; "they drew lots for it"

MIX
The act of mixing together; "paste made by a mix of flour and water"; "the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio"

SET
Several exercises intended to be done in series; "he did four sets of the incline bench press"

HOT
Having or bringing unusually good luck; "hot at craps"; "the dice are hot tonight"

BOX
A blow with the hand (usually on the ear); "I gave him a good box on the ear"

4 letters

STEW
Food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables

SEPT
People descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"

PASS
Accept or judge as acceptable; "The teacher passed the student although he was weak"

RACE
A canal for a current of water

RANK
The body of members of an organization or group; "they polled their membership"; "they found dissension in their own ranks"; "he joined the ranks of the unemployed"

RISK
The probability of being exposed to an infectious agent

MODE
How something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion"

HEAD
Oral stimulation of the genitals; "they say he gives good head"

CLAN
Group of people related by blood or marriage

CARE
Attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard"

CASE
A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the family brought suit against the landlord"

BOAT
A small vessel for travel on water

BIND
Something that hinders as if with bonds

MESS
A (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax

HOLE
An opening deliberately made in or through something

SPOT
An act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook"

5 letters

TRIAL
The act of undergoing testing; "he survived the great test of battle"; "candidates must compete in a trial of skill"

UPSET
An improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"

TITLE
An established or recognized right; "a strong legal claim to the property"; "he had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate"; "he staked his claim"

SNARL
Something jumbled or confused; "a tangle of government regulations"

STATE
The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies; "the Department of State was created in 1789"

SWAMP
Low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog

RIGOR
The quality of being valid and rigorous

PERIL
A venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury; "he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime"; "there was a danger he would do the wrong thing"

PINCH
Irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear; "smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth"; "the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back"

PLACE
An abstract mental location; "he has a special place in my thoughts"; "a place in my heart"; "a political system with no place for the less prominent groups"

ORDER
(architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans

GROUP
Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

LABEL
A brief description given for purposes of identification; "the label Modern is applied to many different kinds of architecture"

LAVEL

GRADE
The gradient of a slope or road or other surface; "the road had a steep grade"

CURSE
An evil spell; "a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the whammy on me"

EVENT
Something that happens at a given place and time

CLASS
Education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not unknown in college classes"

CROSS
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids

CASTE
A social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth

BLOOD
The fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets; "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products"; "the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions"

6 letters

STRESS
The relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"

STRIFE
Bitter conflict; heated often violent dissension

THREAT
A warning that something unpleasant is imminent; "they were under threat of arrest"

STATUS
A state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"

STRAIN
The act of singing; "with a shout and a song they marched up to the gates"

SLOUGH
Any outer covering that can be shed or cast off (such as the cast-off skin of a snake)

RUBRIC
A title or heading that is printed in red or in a special type

RIGOUR
Excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"

PUZZLE
A game that tests your ingenuity

RATING
Act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of

RIDDLE
A coarse sieve (as for gravel)

POTHER
An excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft"

MORASS
A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

MENACE
A threat or the act of threatening; "he spoke with desperate menace"

HAZARD
An obstacle on a golf course

HOBBLE
Hamper the action or progress of; "The chairman was hobbled by the all-powerful dean"

MATTER
That which has mass and occupies space; "physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it"

ESTATE
A major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights

DANGER
A dangerous place; "He moved out of danger"

DOWNER
A drug that reduces excitability and calms a person

ENIGMA
Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets"

CRUNCH
The act of crushing

CORNER
An interior angle formed by two meeting walls; "a piano was in one corner of the room"

CRISIS
A crucial stage or turning point in the course of something; "after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better"

CLUTCH
The act of grasping; "he released his clasp on my arm"; "he has a strong grip for an old man"; "she kept a firm hold on the railing"

BOTHER
Make confused or perplexed or puzzled

BRANCH
Any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm; "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer"

BUMMER
An experience that is irritating or frustrating or disappointing; "having to stand in line so long was a real bummer"

BLIGHT
Any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting

BAFFLE
A flat plate that controls or directs the flow of fluid or energy

PICKLE
Vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar

STRAIT
A narrow channel of the sea joining two larger bodies of water

SCRAPE
A deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility); "all that bowing and scraping did not impress him"

PLIGHT
A solemn pledge of fidelity

7 letters

DILEMMA
State of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options

BADSPOT

URGENCY
Pressing importance requiring speedy action; "the urgency of his need"

TROUBLE
An effort that is inconvenient; "I went to a lot of trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty"

SQUEEZE
The act of forcing yourself (or being forced) into or through a restricted space; "getting through that small opening was a tight squeeze"

STATION
The frequency assigned to a broadcasting station

THINICE

STRATUM
An abstract place usually conceived as having depth; "a good actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has at least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many strata simultaneously"

STRAITS
A difficult juncture; "a pretty pass"; "matters came to a head yesterday"

SECTION
The cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)

PROBLEM
A source of difficulty; "one trouble after another delayed the job"; "what's the problem?"

POSTURE
Characteristic way of bearing one's body; "stood with good posture"

NONPLUS
Be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"

IMPASSE
A street with only one way in or out

INABIRD

MYSTERY
Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets"

INABIND

HEADING
A line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text"

BRACKET
Either of two punctuation marks (`<' or `>') used in computer programming and sometimes used to enclose textual material

FOOTING
A place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing

HARDLOT