| PREDICAMENT | A difficult, unpleasant or embarrassing situation; tight spot (11) |
| AWK | Uncomfortable or embarrassing situation informally |
| CRINGE | Squirm in an awkward or embarrassing situation |
| INFLAGRANTE | For this embarrassing situation Grannie flat's preposterous! |
| SQUIRMHOLES | Ways out of embarrassing situations? |
| DISTASTEFUL | Unpleasant or offensive (11) |
| SCRAPE | A very thin layer of butter on a piece of bread or toast; a tuneless stroke of a violin bow; a mass of earth dug up by a rabbit; or, an awkward or embarrassing predicament (6) |
| SCRAPES | Bad or embarrassing situations (7) |
| UPAGAINSTIT | Right next to something in a tight spot |
| SHOEHORNING | Putting in a tight spot |
| PULLTHROUGH | Recover when you extract from a tight spot? (4,7) |
| INTHEMIDDLE | In a tight spot |
| CREEP | An act of crawling or inching slowly or stealthily; an inexorable movement of something, such as fog; or, a sycophant or otherwise unpleasant or detestable person (5) |
| DODGE | A dive, duck, sidestep, shun, veer or other evasive/hiding movement; a quibble; a ruse or cunning trick in order to avoid something unpleasant; or, an instance of two bells trading places in change-ri |
| STICKY | A gummed label or Post-it note; a word generally meaning adhesive, gluey, hot, humid, muggy, tenacious or unpleasant; or, paired with "willie", a clinging plant also called cleavers (6) |
| PRUNE | Shrivelled wrinkled potentially unappealing dried plum likened to an unpleasant or disagreeable sour-faced grump; or, a clip of a fan-trained damson or lop of a greengage tree, perhaps (5) |
| THINICE | A delicate or potentially embarrassing situation |
| FAUXPAS | French phrase meaning a gaffe or embarrassing blunder (4,3) |
| SCALENE | Embarrassing situation about a league starting with unequal sides (7) |
| OWNUP | Admit to doing something wrong or embarrassing (3,2) |
