| Sheer torment |
New York Times Mini |
23 Nov 2025 |
| Great distress |
Newsday |
12 Nov 2025 |
| The ___ and the Ecstasy |
LA Times Mini |
08 Nov 2025 |
| Great pain (5) |
Mirror Classic |
28 Oct 2025 |
| Extreme pain |
Thomas Joseph |
28 Oct 2025 |
| Extreme pain |
Commuter |
24 Oct 2025 |
| Great pain (5) |
Mirror Classic |
05 Oct 2025 |
| Extreme suffering |
|
|
| Deep suffering (opposite of "ecstasy") |
|
|
| Anguish (5) |
Puzzler |
08 Aug 2025 |
| Prolonged pain |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Aug 2025 |
| Counterpart of ecstasy |
USA Today |
28 Jul 2025 |
| Some admitting to travel in extreme pain (5) |
|
|
| Severe pain (5) |
Mirror Classic |
26 Jul 2025 |
| Drag on, your inner torment (5) |
|
|
| Many heading off will admit travel can be a painful experience |
|
|
| "The thrill of victory, the ___ of defeat" |
|
|
| Any indoor game is a pain (5) |
|
|
| Deep distress |
Commuter |
01 Jul 2025 |
| Intense pain (5) |
Mirror Classic |
29 Jun 2025 |
| Spinning exercises on mat stopped by new pain |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
13 Jun 2025 |
| Great pain or anguish (5) |
|
|
| Suffering from gout? Not half, some will admit |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
29 May 2025 |
| "The ___ and the Ecstasy" (1961 Irving Stone novel about Michelangelo) |
|
|
| Extreme pain |
Commuter |
01 May 2025 |
| Leave in no particular torment (5) |
|
|
| Intense pain |
Thomas Joseph |
22 Apr 2025 |
| Deep distress |
Universal |
15 Apr 2025 |
| Great pain |
Mirror Classic |
15 Apr 2025 |
| Extreme pain |
Mirror Quick |
05 Apr 2025 |
| In the past, city was in pain |
Mirror Cryptic |
05 Apr 2025 |
| Acute pain |
Mirror Tea Time |
29 Mar 2025 |
| Extreme pain (5) |
Puzzler |
16 Mar 2025 |
| _ aunt, problem adviser (5) |
|
|
| Great pain |
Premier Sunday |
09 Mar 2025 |
| The grief of an aunty getting published (5) |
|
|
| Extreme pain |
New York Times |
02 Mar 2025 |
| Opposite of ecstasy |
USA Today |
28 Feb 2025 |
| Aunt, kind of, in pain (5) |
|
|
| Extreme physical suffering |
|
|
| Acute pain |
Mirror Tea Time |
15 Feb 2025 |
| The pain in the past of New York initially (5) |
|
|
| Great suffering |
The Sun Mini |
27 Jan 2025 |
| Extreme suffering |
|
|
| Extreme pain |
Wall Street Journal |
15 Jan 2025 |
| PlusWord No 955 solution |
The Telegraph Plusword |
01 Jan 2025 |
| "The __ and the Ecstasy": novel about Michelangelo |
LA Times Daily |
25 Dec 2024 |
| Utter misery |
|
|
| Extreme suffering |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
08 Dec 2024 |
| Maureen Lipman sitcom which ran from 1979 to 1981 (5) |
|
|
| Torment |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Nov 2024 |
| Effort to stop some suffering |
The Sun Two Speed |
26 Nov 2024 |
| Go in some pain (5) |
Puzzler Cryptic |
24 Nov 2024 |
| Woe, woe, woe! |
|
|
| Agreed about a lot of past suffering (5) |
The Guardian Cryptic |
06 Nov 2024 |
| Try to stop some suffering |
The Sun Two Speed |
05 Nov 2024 |
| Torment |
The Sun Two Speed |
05 Nov 2024 |
| Suffering |
The Telegraph Quick |
04 Nov 2024 |
| Anguish, tribulation (5) |
|
|
| Great pain |
Mirror Classic |
22 Oct 2024 |
| Intense distress |
|
|
| Great distress |
Newsday |
20 Oct 2024 |
| Serious suffering |
New York Times |
13 Oct 2024 |
| Pain will show time to be past for city in the States (5) |
|
|
| Some holding onto life may be suffering (5) |
|
|
| Anguish or torment |
|
|
| Torment |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
20 Sep 2024 |
| Great pain |
Mirror Classic |
09 Sep 2024 |
| Pain |
New York Times |
04 Sep 2024 |
| "The - and the Ecstasy" |
|
|
| ___ aunt, problem page columnist |
Puzzler |
16 Aug 2024 |
| Deep suffering (opposite of "ecstasy") |
|
|
| "There is no greater ___ than bearing an untold story inside you" (Maya Angelou) |
Universal |
25 Jul 2024 |
| Acute pain |
Mirror Tea Time |
23 Jul 2024 |
| Great pain |
Mirror Classic |
21 Jul 2024 |
| ____ aunt, source of advice |
The Telegraph Plusword |
19 Jul 2024 |
| Severe woe distress |
|
|
| Great distress |
Newsday |
18 Jul 2024 |
| Intense pain (5) |
The Guardian Quick |
17 Jul 2024 |
| Pains endured by a major city hosting game |
|
|
| Helpful aunt in extreme pain (5) |
|
|
| Move in any torment (5) |
|
|
| "... the ___ of defeat" (Sports show intro words) |
|
|
| _aunt, adviser (5) |
|
|
| Feeling produced from cringe comedy, maybe |
|
|
| Depart in some pain |
|
|
| Great pain |
Mirror Classic |
27 May 2024 |
| Great pain |
LA Times Daily |
13 May 2024 |
| Pain that makes any go wild (5) |
|
|
| Something very painful in the past with American city (5) |
|
|
| Horrendous pain |
|
|
| Song sung by two princes in "Into the Woods" |
|
|
| Extreme suffering |
New York Times Mini |
14 Apr 2024 |
| Immense pain (5) |
|
|
| Extreme pain |
Thomas Joseph |
08 Apr 2024 |
| The anguish of the newspaper Aunt |
|
|
| Great distress |
Newsday |
24 Mar 2024 |
| The ___ of choice (5) |
|
|
| Grief found sometime past in New York (5) |
|
|
| Torment shows time that is past a city in America (5) |
|
|
| The ___ and the Ecstasy, film about Michelangelo (5) |
|
|
| Extreme suffering |
Wall Street Journal |
04 Mar 2024 |
| "Into the Woods" song |
Wall Street Journal |
02 Mar 2024 |
| Painfulness |
|
|
| Aunt's personal part of the paper? (5,6) |
|
|
| Ecstasy's opposite |
New York Times |
27 Feb 2024 |
| Great pain |
TV |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Any about to depart may give hurt |
|
|
| Such awful pain will disappear in any situation (5) |
|
|
| 1979-81 TV sitcom starring Maureen Lipman (5) |
|
|
| Intense physical pain |
Mirror Classic |
12 Feb 2024 |
| Great pain |
Puzzler Backwords |
01 Feb 2024 |
| Pain or distress (5) |
|
|
| Extreme suffering |
|
|
| Suffering in the past associated with U.S. city (5) |
|
|
| "Into the Woods" song sung by two princes |
LA Times Daily |
12 Jan 2024 |
| What waiting for overdue results can be |
Universal |
09 Jan 2024 |
| Extreme pain |
Thomas Joseph |
17 Nov 2023 |
| Intense distress |
|
|
| Work in a US city is torture |
The Times Cryptic |
28 Aug 2023 |
| 'The thrill of victory ... and the ___ of defeat' ('Wide World of Sports' catchphrase) |
New York Times |
27 Aug 2023 |
| Cause of writhing, perhaps |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Aug 2023 |
| ___ aunt (advice column writer) |
|
|
| Counterpart of ecstasy |
USA Today |
30 May 2023 |
| 'The ___ and the Ecstasy' (biographical novel about Michelangelo) |
New York Times |
30 May 2023 |
| Excruciating pain |
The Times Concise |
19 May 2023 |
| Serious pain |
Wall Street Journal |
19 May 2023 |
| Suffering |
The Telegraph Quick |
17 May 2023 |
| Extreme pain |
Thomas Joseph |
13 May 2023 |
| Serious distress |
USA Today |
24 Apr 2023 |
| Excruciating torment |
Universal |
24 Mar 2023 |
| Intense suffering |
New York Times |
14 Mar 2023 |
| Extreme pain |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Feb 2023 |
| Extreme pain |
Thomas Joseph |
17 Feb 2023 |
| Great distress |
Newsday |
08 Feb 2023 |
| Torment |
LA Times Daily |
23 Dec 2022 |
| ___ aunt (advice columnist) |
|
|
| Extreme suffering of some collecting game |
The Times Cryptic |
08 Nov 2022 |
| Extreme suffering |
|
|
| Intense distress |
|
|
| Suffering |
Thomas Joseph |
06 Oct 2022 |
| Woe |
Premier Sunday |
11 Sep 2022 |
| "... the __ of defeat": "Wide World of Sports" phrase |
LA Times Daily |
06 Sep 2022 |
| Ecstasy's opposite |
|
|
| Extreme suffering |
The Times Concise |
02 Jul 2022 |
| Extreme pain |
Thomas Joseph |
28 Jun 2022 |
| Intense pain |
The Guardian Quick |
28 Apr 2022 |
| Anguish |
LA Times Daily |
26 Apr 2022 |
| Anguish |
The Washington Post |
26 Apr 2022 |
| Extreme pain |
Thomas Joseph |
20 Apr 2022 |
| Serious suffering |
Wall Street Journal |
30 Mar 2022 |
| Deep distress |
|
|
| Torment |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Mar 2022 |
| Try any clothes, it's a pain |
|
|
| Great distress |
Wall Street Journal |
08 Feb 2022 |
| Unbearable pain |
Thomas Joseph |
25 Jan 2022 |
| Serious suffering |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Jan 2022 |
| Extreme suffering |
|
|
| Extreme suffering |
The Times Concise |
17 Dec 2021 |
| Type of aunt who might be found on the pages of a tabloid newspaper? |
The Guardian Weekend |
11 Dec 2021 |
| Intense pain |
Universal |
09 Oct 2021 |
| Pain is extremely nasty after a run |
|
|
| ___ aunt (one who tries to solve your problems) |
|
|
| Torment |
LA Times Daily |
30 May 2021 |
| Torment |
The Washington Post |
30 May 2021 |
| Intense suffering |
LA Times Daily |
21 May 2021 |
| Intense suffering |
The Washington Post |
21 May 2021 |
| Suffering some to be blocked by progress |
|
|
| Deep distress |
Newsday |
26 Apr 2021 |
| ___ aunt (newspaper columnist) |
|
|
| Extreme pain |
New York Times |
22 Feb 2021 |
| ___ aunt (writer of an advice column) |
|
|
| American city encapsulating success and suffering |
|
|
| Title feeling 'beyond power of speech,' in an 'Into the Woods' song |
The Washington Post |
28 Jan 2021 |
| Title feeling "beyond power of speech," in an "Into the Woods" song |
LA Times Daily |
28 Jan 2021 |
| Ecstasy's opposite |
Eugene Sheffer |
05 Dec 2020 |
| Extreme distress |
LA Times Daily |
21 Nov 2020 |
| Extreme distress |
The Washington Post |
21 Nov 2020 |
| Heartbreak, maybe |
USA Today |
20 Nov 2020 |
| Young lady duly left in great distress |
Irish Times Crosaire |
20 Nov 2020 |
| Torment |
Universal |
19 Nov 2020 |
| Suffering such aunts and uncles? |
|
|
| Serious pain |
Wall Street Journal |
10 Oct 2020 |
| Counterpart of ecstasy |
USA Today |
30 Sep 2020 |
| Extreme suffering |
The Times Concise |
23 Sep 2020 |
| Extreme torment |
|
|
| Prolonged pain |
|
|
| Severe suffering |
Wall Street Journal |
27 Aug 2020 |
| Extreme pain |
|
|
| Try to stop some suffering |
The Sun Two Speed |
18 Aug 2020 |
| Torment |
The Sun Two Speed |
18 Aug 2020 |
| Extreme suffering |
Wall Street Journal |
03 Aug 2020 |
| Deep pain |
|
|
| Sitting next to a constantly crying baby on a cross-country flight, maybe |
New York Times |
12 Jun 2020 |
| Ecstasy's counterpart |
Universal |
27 May 2020 |
| Great distress |
Newsday |
10 May 2020 |
| Another term for pain or anguish |
|
|
| Ecstasy's opposite |
Universal |
23 Apr 2020 |
| Extreme pain |
Thomas Joseph |
07 Feb 2020 |
| ___ aunt (problem solver) |
|
|
| Prolonged pain |
|
|
| “Into the Woods” song |
Wall Street Journal |
21 Dec 2019 |
| Severe pain |
Canadiana |
25 Nov 2019 |
| '... the __ of defeat': 'Wide World of Sports' phrase |
The Washington Post |
04 Oct 2019 |
| "... the __ of defeat": "Wide World of Sports" phrase |
LA Times Daily |
04 Oct 2019 |
| Anguish |
Jonesin |
16 Jul 2019 |
| Another term for pain or anguish |
|
|
| Serious suffering |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Apr 2019 |
| Suffering |
Thomas Joseph |
20 Mar 2019 |
| Ecstasy's antithesis |
USA Today |
09 Mar 2019 |
| ___ aunt (one who tries to solve your problems) |
|
|
| Ecstasy's opposite |
LA Times Daily |
19 Feb 2019 |
| Ecstasy's opposite |
The Washington Post |
19 Feb 2019 |
| Ecstasy's opposite |
|
|
| Ecstasy's antithesis |
|
|
| Mental torment |
|
|
| Serious suffering |
|
|
| "... the __ of defeat": "Wide World of Sports" phrase |
|
|
| Torment |
New York Times |
25 Nov 2018 |
| Extreme pain |
|
|
| Extreme pain |
|
|
| Terrible pain |
LA Times Daily |
28 Aug 2018 |
| Terrible pain |
The Washington Post |
28 Aug 2018 |
| Extreme suffering |
|
|
| Severe distress |
|
|
| U-turn from ecstasy |
Universal |
21 Jul 2018 |
| Pain |
The Telegraph Quick |
04 Jul 2018 |
| Significant suffering |
Wall Street Journal |
23 Jun 2018 |
| Unrelenting pain |
Universal |
23 Jun 2018 |
| 10 on the pain scale |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Jun 2018 |
| Severe pain |
Universal |
30 May 2018 |
| Torment |
|
|
| What waiting for overdue results can be |
New York Times |
27 Mar 2018 |
| Ecstasy's counterpart |
USA Today |
24 Mar 2018 |
| Suffering in the past ends in plain misery |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
12 Mar 2018 |
| ". . . the ___ of defeat" |
USA Today |
27 Feb 2018 |
| Sitting through a bad piano recital, for e.g. |
|
|
| Ecstasy's opposite |
|
|
| 10 on the pain scale |
|
|
| Torment |
|
|
| Terrible pain |
|
|
| Unrelenting pain |
|
|
| ". . . the ___ of defeat" |
|
|
| What waiting for overdue results can be |
|
|
| Significant suffering |
|
|
| U-turn from ecstasy |
|
|
| Severe pain |
|
|
| Intense pain |
|
|
| Ecstasy's opposite |
|
|
| Indefinite number engaged in system of exercises standing on head in pain |
The Telegraph Toughie |
22 Nov 2017 |
| Intense suffering |
|
|
| Extreme pain |
The Washington Post |
22 Oct 2017 |
| Extreme pain |
LA Times Daily |
22 Oct 2017 |
| Ecstasy's opposite |
Wall Street Journal |
05 Aug 2017 |
| Having one's wisdom teeth pulled, e.g |
New York Times |
24 May 2017 |
| Major pain |
The Washington Post |
14 May 2017 |
| Major pain |
LA Times Daily |
14 May 2017 |
| Serious suffering |
|
|
| Try to block some pain |
The Telegraph Toughie |
04 May 2017 |
| Ecstasy's opposite |
New York Times |
01 Mar 2017 |
| Excruciating pain |
New York Times |
20 Feb 2017 |
| Intense suffering |
USA Today |
13 Jan 2017 |
| Excruciating pain |
|
|
| Extreme pain |
|
|
| Having one's wisdom teeth pulled, e.g. |
|
|
| Major pain |
|
|
| Ecstasy's counterpart |
|
|
| Intense suffering |
|
|
| Ecstasy's opposite |
|
|
| State nobody wants to live in |
New York Times |
21 Dec 2016 |
| Deep distress |
Family Time |
20 Nov 2016 |
| Ecstasy opposite |
Universal |
12 Jul 2016 |
| Great suffering |
The Washington Post |
25 Mar 2016 |
| Unbearable pain |
Thomas Joseph |
17 Feb 2016 |
| Opposite of ecstasy |
Universal |
01 Feb 2016 |
| Terrible pain |
The Telegraph Quick |
16 Jan 2016 |
| Intense feeling |
LA Times Daily |
10 Jan 2016 |
| Ecstasy opposite |
|
|
| Opposite of ecstasy |
|
|
| State nobody wants to live in |
|
|
| Intense feeling |
|
|
| Hell |
New York Times |
28 Nov 2015 |
| Intense pain |
The Washington Post |
10 Nov 2015 |
| 'Into the Woods' song |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Oct 2015 |
| "... the ___ of defeat" |
Universal |
15 Sep 2015 |
| Torment some bridge game |
|
|
| Miserable feeling |
USA Today |
05 Jun 2015 |
| Miserable feeling |
Universal |
19 May 2015 |
| Tortured feeling |
USA Today |
07 Mar 2015 |
| Intense suspense, e.g. |
|
|
| Ecstasy's opposite |
|
|
| Intense pain |
|
|
| It's a big pain |
|
|
| Miserable feeling |
|
|
| "Into the Woods" song |
|
|
| Ecstasy's opposite |
|
|
| Hell |
|
|
| Thrill's sporting opposite |
|
|
| Miserable feeling |
|
|
| Pain and suffering |
|
|
| Tortured feeling |
|
|
| Deep distress |
|
|
| "... the ___ of defeat" |
|
|
| Serious suffering |
|
|
| Ecstasy's opposite |
|
|
| Ecstasy's antithesis |
|
|
| Throes and woes |
|
|
| Pain |
|
|
| Anguish |
|
|
| Waiting, for the impatient, say |
|
|
| Prolonged suffering |
|
|
| Painful ordeal |
|
|
| You suffer when you're in it |
|
|
| Torture |
|
|
| Torture |
|
|
| Anguish |
|
|
| True pain |
|
|
| Anguish |
|
|
| Breaking Benjamin "Dear ___" |
|
|
| Hellish suffering |
|
|
| The ___ of defeat |
|
|
| Prolonged suffering |
|
|
| Excruciating pain |
|
|
| Torment |
|
|
| Prolonged suffering |
|
|
| Severe suffering |
|
|
| Torment |
|
|
| See 55-Across |
|
|
| Torment |
|
|
| Great suffering |
|
|
| Prolonged pain |
|
|
| Great suffering |
|
|
| Torment |
|
|
| Anguish |
|
|
| Prolonged pain |
|
|
| "There is no greater ___ than bearing an untold story inside you": Maya Angelou |
|
|
| Great suffering |
|
|
| Misery |
|
|
| Ecstasy's counterpart |
|
|
| Song from Sondheim's "Into the Woods" |
|
|
| Opposite of ecstasy |
|
|
| Prolonged suffering |
|
|
| Major pain |
|
|
| Torture |
|
|
| ". . . and the __ of defeat" |
|
|
| Serious suffering |
|
|
| That tortured feeling |
|
|
| Extreme pain |
|
|
| Awful struggle |
|
|
| Torment |
|
|
| Torment |
|
|
| It's a major pain |
|
|
| Extreme suffering |
|
|
| "The thrill of victory and the ___ of defeat" |
|
|
| Intense suffering |
|
|
| Unending pain |
|
|
| Severe suffering |
|
|
| Intense pain |
|
|
| "... the __ of defeat" |
|
|
| Anguish |
|
|
| Intense pain |
|
|
| Excruciating pain |
|
|
| Awful feeling |
|
|
| Intense pain |
|
|
| Intense pain |
|
|
| "... the __ of defeat" |
|
|
| Anguish |
|
|
| Hell |
|
|
| Suffering |
|
|
| "Into the Woods" song |
|
|
| Torment |
|
|
| Opposite of ecstasy |
|
|
| Intense distress |
|
|
| Emotion in defeat, sometimes |
|
|
| ___ aunt (British advice columnist) |
|
|
| "Into the Woods" song |
|
|
| Sitting through a bad violin recital, say |
|
|
| Listening to an insufferable bore, often |
|
|
| Intense suspense, say |
|
|
| Torture |
|
|
| Torment |
|
|
| Great suffering |
|
|
| "The __ and the Ecstasy" |
|
|
| Deep distress |
|
|
| Anguish |
|
|
| "The__ and the Ecstasy" |
|
|
| Extreme pain |
|
|
| Torment |
|
|
| Extreme pain |
|
|
| Cause for contortions |
|
|
| Suffering |
|
|
| Excruciation |
|
|
| Intense suffering |
|
|
| A long, amateurish piano recital, maybe |
|
|
| Intense suffering |
|
|
| Extreme suffering |
|
|
| Defeat may bring it |
|
|
| Intense suffering |
|
|
| Ecstasy's counterpart |
|
|
| Torture |
|
|
| That tortured feeling |
|
|
| Deep distress |
|
|
| Severe pain |
|
|
| Intense suffering |
|
|
| Violent struggle |
|
|
| Suffering |
|
|
| Sitting through a bad piano recital, e.g. |
|
|
| Extreme emotion |
|
|
| "The _____ and the Ecstasy" |
|
|
| Cause for contortions |
|
|
| Miserable feeling |
|
|
| "'The _____ and the Ecstasy" |
|
|
| It hurts |
|
|
| Prolonged pain |
|
|
| Intense pain |
|
|
| The ____ and the Ecstasy |
|
|
| Hard going |
|
|
| Pain |
|
|
| Kind of column |
|
|
| Convulsive struggle |
|
|
| Throes and woes |
|
|
| "The ___ and the Ecstasy": I. Stone |
|
|
| "The ___ and the Ecstasy": Stone |
|
|
| Ecstasy's partner |
|
|
| Defeated one's feeling? |
|
|
| Ecstasy's antithesis |
|
|
| Extreme misery |
|
|
| Great distress |
|
|
| Travail |
|
|
| Convulsive struggle |
|
|
| Anguish |
|
|
| Antithesis of ecstasy |
|
|
| Ecstasy's literary partner |
|
|
| Opposite of ecstasy |
|
|
| Ecstasy's literary partner |
|
|
| Ecstasy's companion |
|
|
| Distress |
|
|
| ___ column |
|
|
| Kind of newspaper column |
|
|
| ___ column for personals. |
|
|
| "___" column in British papers. |
|
|
| Pain |
|
|
| Kind of newspaper column. |
|
|
| Torment |
|
|
| "The ___ and the Ecstacy." |
|
|
| Great distress. |
|
|
| Anguish. |
|
|
| Distress. |
|
|
| Sheer discomfort. |
|
|
| ___ column, in British papers. |
|
|
| Distress simulated by wrestlers. |
|
|
| ___ column. |
|
|
| Pain. |
|
|
| Extreme suffering |
|
|
| Famous column in London's "Thunderer.” |
|
|
| ___ column, for personals in British newspapers. |
|
|
| Sudden strong emotion. |
|
|
| Pang. |
|
|
| Acute distress. |
|
|
| Screaming pain |
|
|
| Hell |
|
|
| Torment. |
|
|
| "The ___ and the Ecstasy." |
|
|