Sorry situations
The crossword clue "Sorry situations" is answered by ILLS, a 4-letter entry. Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2023. 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
ILLS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ILLS answer page.
Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2023. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for ILLS
Every other clue in this collection answered by ILLS, most used first.
- Misfortunes - used 296 times, most recently in 2026
- Troubles - used 212 times, most recently in 2026
- Woes - used 155 times, most recently in 2026
- Societal woes - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
- Problems - used 54 times, most recently in 2025
- Societal problems - used 45 times, most recently in 2026
- Afflictions - used 36 times, most recently in 2026
- Pandora's boxful - used 35 times, most recently in 2020
- Evils - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
- Miseries - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Societal troubles - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Hardships - used 21 times, most recently in 2025
- Ailments - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Maladies - used 18 times, most recently in 2023
- Adversities - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
- Contents of Pandora's box - used 15 times, most recently in 2022
- Travails - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
- Tribulations - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
- Calamities - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
- Social problems - used 11 times, most recently in 2021
- Aches and pains - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
- Escapees from Pandora's box - used 8 times, most recently in 2013
- Reformers' targets - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
- Troubles and misfortunes - used 8 times, most recently in 2011
- Troubles or woes - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
- Pandora's release - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Things to cure - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
- Trials and tribulations - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Woes of the world - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Society's woes - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Woes, as of the world - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
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.
- Feel sorry for - PITY, used 89 times
- "Sorry to say . . ." - ALAS, used 84 times
- No-win situations? - TIES, used 28 times
- Sorry sort - RUER, used 25 times
- Felt sorry about - RUED, used 22 times
- Feels sorry about - RUES, used 19 times
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