Word "PITFALL" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty
Synonyms:
booby trap

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a trap in the form of a concealed hole
Synonyms:
pit

Crossword Clues for PITFALL

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Hazard for the unwary New York Times 24 Aug 2025
Trap The Times Sunday Concise 03 Aug 2025
Unsuspected difficulty or danger
Hidden danger The Telegraph Cross Atlantic 28 Apr 2025
Trap for the unwary The Times Concise 10 Mar 2025
Rancid fat in tablet is a potential danger
Potential danger behind going upside-down within capsule, perhaps
This hazard could be mine before autumn (7)
Mine collapse that's a hazard (7)
Hidden danger Thomas Joseph 23 Nov 2024
This may cause one to tip up before autumn! (7)
Unforeseen danger (7)
Hidden danger that may trap miners (7)
Unsuspected danger would fit Paul, according to Spooner (7)
Snag that can fit in a dark cloud (7)
Danger as a result of the mine collapsing? (7) Puzzler Cryptic 04 Aug 2024
Hidden or unsuspected difficulty (7)
Hidden trap (7)
Spooner to fit Paul in concealed trap
Unforeseen problem having mine over autumn (7)
Hidden difficulty caused by mine subsidence (7)
The hidden danger of mine subsidence (7)
Unforeseen or unexpected difficulty
Tip back and tumble into trap (7)
Concealed trap The Guardian Quick 05 Apr 2024
Concealed trap (7)
A hidden danger
Hidden or unexpected danger (7)
Concealed danger, trap (7)
Hidden difficulty dangerous to miners (7)
Hidden difficulty caused by subsidence in mine (7)
Unsuspected difficulty
Hidden danger from mine subsidence (7)
Hidden danger in mine following everyone (7)
Unsuspected difficulty that not only coal-miners drop from? (3-4)
Hidden danger of wrong sort of fat in tablet The Times Cryptic 18 Nov 2022
Unforeseen difficulty The Guardian Quick 27 Apr 2022
Booby trap and mine everyone gets around fine
Unexpected danger parking the thing before autumn The Times Cryptic 25 Nov 2021
Hidden danger behind returning medication boxes
Catch it in carp's close season
Unexpected problem The Washington Post Sunday 02 May 2021
Danger of veil covering sex with female The Telegraph Cryptic 04 Mar 2021
Lean the wrong way, drop a catch
Unsuspected danger The Times Concise 08 Feb 2021
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Hidden danger The Washington Post 02 Oct 2020
Hidden danger LA Times Daily 02 Oct 2020
Hidden danger The Telegraph Quick 15 Apr 2020
Unforeseen difficulty in mine before collapse
Trap for the unwary New York Times 08 Feb 2019
Trap for the unwary
Unforeseen difficulty of Italian female wearing shroud The Telegraph Cryptic 25 Dec 2018
Difficulty is mine, following everything
Hidden danger Thomas Joseph 01 Dec 2018
Lift pal collapsing — into this?
Trap The Telegraph Quick 28 Jun 2018
Spooner's to install curtain? It's a potential danger
Unforeseen problem in theatrical part before season in US The Telegraph Cryptic 17 Sep 2017
Unforeseen trouble New York Times 15 Apr 2017
Unforeseen trouble
Hidden danger Eugene Sheffer 27 Dec 2016
Hidden danger The Times Concise 22 Dec 2016
Trap attractive letter writer for Spooner
Danger when PM misses Brexit climax and collapse
Danger is constant on primarily turning pitch
Tablet screens held up behind hidden danger
Unexpected problem as female piece of advice upset everyone The Telegraph Cryptic 30 Aug 2015
Hidden hazard The Chronicle of Higher Education 10 Jul 2015
Hidden difficulty The Times Concise 25 Jun 2015
Suggestion taken up before autumn problem
Become tiresome about computers following unexpected difficulty
Unseen danger New York Times 22 Feb 2015
Unseen danger
Hidden hazard
Slightly more than three francs taken in high peril
Hidden hazard
Drawback
Drawback
Hidden hazard
Unexpected difficulty
Trap
Hidden hazard
Hazard
Danger spot
Stumbling block
Danger for the unwary.
Trap.
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