Deep distress
The crossword clue "Deep distress" is answered by AGONY, a 5-letter entry. Used 14 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
AGONY
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AGONY answer page.
Used 14 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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Other clues for AGONY
Every other clue in this collection answered by AGONY, most used first.
- Torment - used 41 times, most recently in 2026
- Extreme pain - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- Ecstasy's opposite - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Anguish - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Great pain - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
- Opposite of ecstasy - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
- Intense pain - used 14 times, most recently in 2026
- Intense suffering - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
- Suffering - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
- "The __ and the Ecstasy" - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
- Great distress - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Extreme suffering - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Serious suffering - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- ". . . the ___ of defeat" - used 10 times, most recently in 2024
- Excruciating pain - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Ecstasy's antithesis - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
- Ecstasy's counterpart - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Major pain - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
- Terrible pain - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
- Intense distress - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
- Pain - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
- Torture - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Deep chasm - ABYSS, used 72 times
- "Rolling in the Deep" singer - ADELE, used 68 times
- Deep sleep - SOPOR, used 53 times
- Deep sleeps - COMAS, used 47 times
- Deep gorge - CHASM, used 37 times
- Distress signal - FLARE, used 37 times
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