Clues for the word "AGONY"
We've had 101 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 313 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on January 06, 2026.
Definition of agony
- n. - Violent contest or striving.
- n. - Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.
- n. - Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
- n. - The last struggle of life; death struggle.
Referring Clues
- Kind of column
- It hurts
- Prolonged pain
- Sitting through a bad piano recital, e.g.
- Violent struggle
- Intense suffering
- A long, amateurish piano recital, maybe
- Suffering
- Torment
- Intense pain
- Unending pain
- Extreme pain
- Serious suffering
- Awful feeling
- Excruciating pain
- Listening to an insufferable bore, often
- Sitting through a bad violin recital, say
- Severe suffering
- It's a major pain
- Ecstasy's counterpart
- Ecstasy's opposite
- Intense suspense, e.g.
- Anguish
- "There is no greater ___ than bearing an untold story inside you": Maya Angelou
- Awful struggle
- Torture
- ___ aunt (British advice columnist)
- Hell
- "The thrill of victory and the ___ of defeat"
- Song from Sondheim's "Into the Woods"
- "... the ___ of defeat"
- "Into the Woods" song
- ". . . and the ___ of defeat"
- "The ___ and the Ecstasy"
- That tortured feeling
- ". . . the ___ of defeat"
- Opposite of ecstasy
- Emotion in defeat, sometimes
- Excruciation
- Deep distress
- Great suffering
- Great pain
- "... the ___ of defeat"
- It's a big pain
- Ecstasy opposite
- "The ___ and the Ecstasy"
- "... and the ___ of defeat"
- Pain
- Major pain
- Woe
- Great distress
- Big pain
- Misery
- See 55-Across
- Unbearable pain
- Prolonged suffering
- The ___ of defeat
- Painful ordeal
- True pain
- You suffer when you're in it
- Hellish suffering
- Throes and woes
- Waiting, for the impatient, say
- Ecstasy's antithesis
- Great misery
- Miserable feeling
- Severe pain
- Intense feeling
- Opposite of ecstasy
- Ecstasy's partner
- State nobody wants to live in
- Having one's wisdom teeth pulled, e.g.
- Try to stop any extreme suffering
- Intense physical pain
- Breaking Benjamin "Dear ___"
- Paloma Faith song of suffering?
- Extreme suffering
- Leave in some pain
- Go in some pain
- Extreme suffering - kind of aunt
- Tortured feeling
- Suffering, from cancellation
- Don't stop when in some pain
- Mental suffering
- Unrelenting pain
- Significant suffering
- U-turn from ecstasy
- Terrible pain
- "... the ___ of defeat": "Wide World of Sports" phrase
- To leave, in any case, can mean torment
- Sitting next to a constantly crying baby on a cross-country flight, maybe
- Counterpart of ecstasy
- Heartbreak, maybe
- Extreme distress
- Title feeling "beyond power of speech," in an "Into the Woods" song
- A painful break, in any case
- To resign, in any case, means pain
- Serious distress
- "The ___ and the Ecstasy" (biographical novel about Michelangelo)
- "Into the Woods" song sung by two princes
- "The ___ and the Ecstasy": novel about Michelangelo
Last Seen In
- Daily American - January 06, 2026
- Mindfood Daily - December 07, 2025
- LA Times - November 28, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 27, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - November 18, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - September 07, 2025
- Your Life Choices - August 25, 2025
- Daily Quick - August 08, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - July 06, 2025
- Daily American - June 30, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 19, 2025
- Your Life Choices - June 02, 2025
- Your Life Choices - May 09, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - April 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 03, 2025
- USA Today - February 28, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 24, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 05, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 26, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 19, 2025
- Daily American - January 13, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - December 31, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 29, 2024
- LA Times - December 25, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - December 24, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 05, 2024
- New Zealand Herald - November 22, 2024
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