Word "DILEMMA" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options
Synonyms:
quandary

Crossword Clues for DILEMMA

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Moral problem Commuter 05 Sep 2025
Cover flipping novel predicament The Telegraph Cryptic 03 Sep 2025
Tough decision USA Today 18 Aug 2025
Difficult choice (7) The Guardian Quick 21 Jul 2025
Dim male overcomes difficulty (7)
Predicament (7) Mirror Classic 19 Jul 2025
Perplexity over cover put back on novel (7)
Cover up girl problem (7)
Resolve mid-meal quandary (7)
Cover over woman in novel predicament
Making a comeback cover girl presents a problem (7)
Problem left by two girls (7)
Quandary for dreadful dim male
Upset Mid-meal cover disturbance girl creating a poses difficult quandary situation (7)
Impossible predicament, if I'm to get medal in error (7)
Problem having maimed another 50 inside (7)
On reflection, cover for novel a difficult choice
Quandary The Sun Two Speed 03 Apr 2025
Retired cover girl in predicament The Sun Two Speed 03 Apr 2025
Predicament Mirror Classic 22 Mar 2025
Problem with medal I'm forging (7) Puzzler Cryptic 17 Mar 2025
Raising one's hat to a girl presents a problem (7)
Quandary upset dim male (7)
Jam The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 20 Feb 2025
Problem with dim male, possibly (7) Puzzler Cryptic 14 Feb 2025
Difficult decision (7) Puzzler 08 Feb 2025
Problem with cover brought back by girl
Between two girls, left in a quandary
Quandary Mirror Quick 29 Jan 2025
Predicament for woman after flipping lid Mirror Cryptic 29 Jan 2025
Princess left Emma a predicament (7)
Predicament Mirror Classic 06 Jan 2025
What a choice - having to take the mad mile!
Turn over cover on novel, <i>Catch-22</i> The Times Quick Cryptic 27 Dec 2024
Awkward situation a mile out with mad? That's wrong! (7)
Problem with excerpt from programme Lidington raised The Telegraph Cryptic 25 Dec 2024
Pickle The Telegraph Quick 08 Dec 2024
Diane left girl with a difficult choice (7) Puzzler Cryptic 08 Dec 2024
Cover up girl with problem (7)
Quandary Mirror Quick 29 Nov 2024
Predicament for woman after flipping lid Mirror Cryptic 29 Nov 2024
Difficult problem Commuter 28 Nov 2024
Raised hat? A woman's problem (7)
The top turns, lady, prove to be a problem (7)
Quandary TV 10 Nov 2024
Sticky situation Mirror Tea Time 28 Oct 2024
Situation for being torn
Raising a hat to girl presents a double problem (7)
Predicament Mirror Classic 13 Oct 2024
Problem situation that gives me a mild turn (7)
Cover up Austen heroine's tough choice The Telegraph Cryptic 07 Oct 2024
Cover up pickle (7)
Heard to phone actress Thompson, causing a quandary (7)
Problem with medal l'm forging (7)
Real predicament USA Today 13 Aug 2024
Real pickle Universal 23 Jul 2024
Cover turned on girl, creating difficult situation (7) Puzzler Cryptic 09 Jul 2024
Tough problem Commuter 08 Jul 2024
Quandry
Something thorny or horny?
Am having. myself, to take the cover up, which is a problem (7)
Sticky situation Mirror Tea Time 25 Jun 2024
Tough choice Newsday 09 Jun 2024
Peel the avenger we hear (7)
Sticky situation, quandary
Returning cover girl presents a problem
State of indecision (7)
Diane left gill with a difficult choice (7)
Revolutionary cover girl's predicament (7)
Problem of hard choice (7)
A quandary for doctors was staged by Shaw (7)
Hat the wrong way around, Miss Woodhouse's predicament? (7)
Perplexing situation for retired cover girl
Predicament changes mid-meal (7)
Awkward problem
Spinning top, novel problem
It's a problem getting the medal I'm handing out (7)
Cleft stick (7)
Horny problem? The Guardian Quick 03 Apr 2024
Cover up a girl with a problem (7)
Unfortunately I'm lamed, an impossible predicament (7)
Cover up a novel problem
The cover-up woman is the problem
Emma lifts the lid and is confronted with a terrible choice (7)
Predicament Mirror Classic 03 Mar 2024
Problem, quandary
The cover-up woman is the problem (7)
Sticky situation Mirror Tea Time 21 Feb 2024
Difficult problem Commuter 17 Feb 2024
Novel's heroine put on hat the wrong way, in a predicament (7)
Cover up novel predicament (7)
Novel's heroine put on hat the wrong way, in a predicament The Telegraph Cryptic 14 Feb 2024
Conflict of unwelcome choices (7)
Sticky situation Wall Street Journal 11 Jan 2024
Very difficult problem Commuter 10 Jan 2024
A predicament (7)
Difficult situation upset cover girl
After cover up, Thompson (or Watson) may create difficulty
Quandary The Telegraph Quick 16 Dec 2023
Raised hat to girl in novel predicament (7)
Pickle Eugene Sheffer 05 Oct 2023
Bind novel with cover raised higher The Times Cryptic 15 Sep 2023
Pickle Eugene Sheffer 01 Sep 2023
Cover up Miss Woodhouse's awkward situation The Telegraph Cryptic 01 Sep 2023
Quandary The Telegraph Quick 12 Jul 2023
Quandary of Miss Woodhouse after I'd returned then left The Telegraph Cryptic 03 Jul 2023
Tricky position, lying on front between two women The Guardian Cryptic 21 Feb 2023
Sticky situation Newsday 28 Aug 2022
Quandary The Telegraph Quick 26 May 2022
Difficult situation The Times Concise 31 Mar 2022
Cover put over Jane Austen novel, or Catch-22? The Times Cryptic 25 Mar 2022
Difficult situation The Times Concise 10 Dec 2021
Darcy isn't likeable, initially -- Austen heroine's quandary The Telegraph Cryptic 16 Nov 2021
State of uncertainty requiring a difficult choice between two options The Guardian Quick 06 Oct 2021
(T)horny problem? The Telegraph Toughie 06 Oct 2021
Quandary of Miss Woodhouse perhaps, after returning hat The Telegraph Cryptic 04 Oct 2021
Choice between equally undesirable courses of action Irish Times Simplex 01 Oct 2021
Detective book of 19th century containing large problem
Quandary The Telegraph Quick 18 Sep 2021
Sticky situation Newsday 02 Sep 2021
Cover's upset Spice Girl – it's problematic
Top up, girl in 22
Policeman left girl: that's the problem
Puzzle upset cover girl
Cover up Ms Peel's fix The Telegraph Toughie 09 Jun 2021
Fix back cover on old novel
Word from the Greek for 'two assumptions' The Washington Post 16 Apr 2021
Word from the Greek for "two assumptions" LA Times Daily 16 Apr 2021
Problem with novel after cover's bent back
Hat back-to-front, girl in predicament The Telegraph Toughie 01 Apr 2021
Cover up Austen character's horny thing?
In Paris, the men from there used in support reflected difficult decision The Telegraph Toughie 18 Mar 2021
Recoiling, cover heroine's spot
Quandary The Times Concise 22 Dec 2020
Tough decision USA Today 22 Nov 2020
Pickle Eugene Sheffer 11 Nov 2020
Upsets a couple of Frenchmen on last plane to Cork with difficult choice Irish Times Crosaire 31 Oct 2020
Tough choice Universal 26 Aug 2020
Retired cover girl in predicament The Sun Two Speed 24 Jul 2020
Quandary The Sun Two Speed 24 Jul 2020
Problem article from the Sorbonne blocking underpowered graduate The Telegraph Toughie 02 Jul 2020
Dim male (anag.) The Telegraph Quick 13 Jun 2020
Predicament The Telegraph Quick 03 May 2020
Mildew nearly spoiled mother's jam
Retired cover girl in Catch-22 The Sun Two Speed 10 Apr 2020
Ethical challenge Newsday 30 Nov 2019
Difficult choice Thomas Joseph 04 Sep 2019
Pickle New York Times 25 Aug 2019
Retired cover girl in quandary The Sun Two Speed 18 Jul 2019
Predicament The Sun Two Speed 18 Jul 2019
It's a problem to raise hat to a girl
Pickle The Washington Post 28 Jun 2019
Pickle LA Times Daily 28 Jun 2019
Choice between equally undesirable courses of action Irish Times Simplex 17 Jun 2019
Catch-22 upset cover girl The Sun Two Speed 26 May 2019
The trolley problem, for one The New Yorker 22 Apr 2019
Cover up girl's doubtful state
Pickle
Pickle
Problem raised in middle of eating fruit? Not on
Cover up novel problem
To eat a late lunch or wait until dinner, say New York Times 10 Oct 2018
Quandary The Telegraph Quick 10 Oct 2018
Problem raised in middle of eating fruit? Not on
Problem with 'horns' USA Today 21 Sep 2018
Tough choice Wall Street Journal 19 Jun 2018
Situation when you are split between two choices
Thorny problem Jonesin 06 Feb 2018
Problem with "horns"
Tough choice
To eat a late lunch or wait until dinner, say
Tough problem LA Times Daily 28 Nov 2017
Tough problem The Washington Post 28 Nov 2017
Cover up work of 22 across that's problematic
Turn over cover on novel -- Catch-22 The Telegraph Toughie 25 Aug 2017
Fix The Washington Post 13 Aug 2017
Fix LA Times Daily 13 Aug 2017
Awkward situation upsets cover girl Irish Times Crosaire 05 Aug 2017
Difficult problem The Times Concise 28 Jul 2017
Fix novel, after bending back cover
Catch-22 Wall Street Journal 31 May 2017
What might be ideal as housing for male couple causes problem
(T)horny predicament? The Times Cryptic 19 Apr 2017
Tough problem
Fix
Inspector left with novel problem
Predicament Thomas Joseph 07 Dec 2016
Predicament laid out over English military award The Telegraph Cryptic 02 Nov 2016
Inspector left with novel problem
Cover over Jane Austen's book maybe 'to be or not to be'
Plight of girl on back cover The Telegraph Toughie 25 Aug 2016
Hat raised to entitled female? That's a problem The Telegraph Cryptic 03 Apr 2016
Making a comeback, cover girl creates a difficult situation
Stupidly dim male may present a problem The Telegraph Cryptic 22 Feb 2016
The choice between courses of action, all equally undesirable Irish Times Simplex 19 Feb 2016
Quandary or predicament The Telegraph General Knowledge 31 Jan 2016
Top lifted on girl creates embarrassment The Telegraph Cryptic 17 Dec 2015
Catch-22 novel after cover's turned over The Telegraph Cryptic 17 Nov 2015
Cover over Miss Woodhouse's predicament
In a predicament, confused middleman loses disheartened Dalmatian
Key to the Italian girl's predicament
Investigates what's left to Emma - it's a can of worms! Irish Times Crosaire 31 Jan 2015
Predicament Eugene Sheffer 14 Jan 2015
Retractable shutter, a novel puzzle
A problem of choice
Puzzle book — turn cover first
Problem for retired cover girl
Tough choice
Perplexing choice
Perplexing problem
Quandary
Perplexing problem
Quandary
Perplexing problem
Quandary
Catch-22
Catch-22
Tight situation
Problematic situation
Choice between two equally bad options
Tough choice
Thorny problem
Difficult choice
Fix
Horned thing?
Problem with horns?
Sticky situation
Choosing between two evils, say
Bind
Catch-22
Catch-22
Thorny situation
Perplexing problem
Choosing between two evils, say
Perplexing situation
It may have horns
Quandary
Tough problem
Thorny problem
Perplexing choice
Cover put over Jane Austen novel, or Catch-22?
Horned thing?
Problematic situation
Predicament
Quandary
Predicament
"Horned" problem
Horned problem
This has horns
Problem with horns
Predicament
To be or not to be.
Choice of two evils.
"To be or not to be," for example.
Perplexity.
Two-horned problem.
Problem.
Predicament.
Spot between the devil and the deep blue sea.
An awkward fix.
Situation with horns.
Crossroads problem.
"The Doctor's ___": G. B. S.
Quandary.
"The Doctor's ___."
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