Word "STRAITS" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a difficult juncture
Synonyms:
head, pass

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
Synonyms:
pass, strait

Crossword Clues for STRAITS

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Desperate position in narrow channel (7)
Water narrows (7)
Passages offered by Surrealist artists (7)
Narrow waterways can be dire (7)
Could be dire for unconventional artists (7)
Hardships (7) Puzzler 26 May 2025
Difficulties in which a coastal navigator might find himself (7)
Opens up when I get into difficulties (7)
Narrows, channel (7)
It is written in the stars. Awful difficulties (7)
Narrow channels of the sea joining two larger bodies of water (7)
Artist's different version - of Dover? (7)
For a dancing star, has its difficulties (7)
For a star, performing has its difficulties (7)
Narrow stretches of water Wall Street Journal 21 Jan 2025
Ship gets round characteristic difficulties (7)
Channels featuring terrible artists (7)
Reversing begins to get one in difficulties (7)
Is first to catch up the one in trouble (7)
Difficult circumstances affect artists (7)
Difficulties in which a coastal navigator may find himself (7)
Hardship may be suffered in such narrow passages (7)
Dire ___, Mark Knopfler's pop group (7)
Difficulties of artists (7)
Begins to catch up the one in difficulties (7)
Is first to return when I get into difficulties (7)
Difficult situation, dire ...
Dire _, a position of acute difficulty (7)
Narrow waterways Newsday 21 Jul 2024
Narrow ship passages Premier Sunday 30 Jun 2024
Opens up when I am in difficulties (7)
Opens up and one gets in with difficulty (7)
Dire ___ (distress)
Narrow channels LA Times Daily 18 May 2024
Jumps up when I get into difficulties (7)
For star, performing has its difficulties
Trouble begins when I enter in reverse (7)
Channel connecting Lake Huron and Lake Michigan (7,2,8)
Being backward begins to get one in difficulties (7)
Some passages for cargo ships
Hardships affect artists (7)
Artists can be in dire ones (7)
In difficulties, one jumps up to protect (7)
Dire ___, band who sang Sultans of Swing (7) Puzzler 01 Jan 2024
Dire ___, rock band
Desperate, in dire
Passages offered by performing artists (7) Puzzler Cryptic 14 Nov 2023
See 15 The Guardian Cryptic 22 Sep 2022
Some are dire Wall Street Journal 06 Jul 2022
Narrow passages Thomas Joseph 19 Apr 2022
In a world atlas, three ____ are Bering, Palk and Sunda The Times Specialist Sunday 20 Feb 2022
Some are dire Wall Street Journal 27 Oct 2020
Narrow waterways New York Times 11 May 2020
Dire ___ Universal 05 Oct 2019
Narrow sea routes Premier Sunday 30 Jun 2019
Narrow sea channels joining two larger bodies Irish Times Simplex 07 May 2019
Dire ___
Narrow passage of water The Guardian Speedy 12 May 2018
Relatives of channels New York Times 01 Apr 2018
Relatives of channels
Narrow channels Wall Street Journal 11 Nov 2017
Difficulties? Initially surrealist artist struggles The Telegraph Toughie 04 Apr 2017
Narrow waterways Eugene Sheffer 22 Feb 2017
Dire ___ The Washington Post 19 Feb 2017
'Dire' places The Washington Post 22 Dec 2016
Some narrow passages The Washington Post 27 Mar 2016
Some shipping routes
In dire --
Narrow ship passages
___ Settlements (former British crown colony)
Some are dire
Narrow passageways
"Dire" situations
Narrow waterways
Narrow waterways
Narrow waterways
Narrow waterways
Narrow waterways
Juan de Fuca and Magellan
Malacca and Magellan
Dover and Gibraltar
Narrow passages
Pressing situation
Pressing situation
They may be dire
Juan de Fuca and Magellan
They may be dire
They may be dire
Rock's Dire --
Magellan, Bering, etc.
Connecting waterways
Connecting waterways
Geographical connectors
Predicament
They may be dire
Bering et al.
Gibraltar and Dover
Dire ____
They can be dire
Difficulties
They might be dire
In dire ___
They're Dire
Narrow waterways
Gibraltar and Dover
Some are dire
Gibraltar and Magellan
Dire ___, rock group
Zone of the ___: 1920–23
Emergencies
Plights
___ Settlements, former British colony
Gibraltar, Bass, Torres, etc.
___ Settlements: capital, Singapore.
Otranto et al.
Difficulties, often dire.
Malacca, Torres, etc.
Magellan and Malacca.
Mackinac and Magellan.
Gibraltar and others.
Narrow passages
Dover, Magellan, etc.
___ Settlements.
Bab el Mandeb, Golden Gate.
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