| HAVEONESWORKCUTOUT | Be faced with a difficult task |
| WALKTHEPLANK | Be faced with a terminally overboard situation? |
| MUSIC | It can be faced with a tricky sum, I see |
| HAVE | Dressmaker might be faced with difficult task (4,3,4,3,3) |
| CUTOUT | Dressmaker might be faced with difficult task (4,3,4,3,3) |
| HERWORK | Dressmaker might be faced with difficult task (4,3,4,3,3) |
| ACROSSTHEBOARD | In all cases, those who run a company will be faced with an ordeal |
| GREASEPAINT | Actors may be faced with it backstage |
| NEWYEARSDAY | Occasion to be faced with resolution? (3,5,3) |
| MOLE | Massive breakwater one could be faced with (4) |
| VEILS | What brides may be faced with! (5) |
| GASMASK | One could be faced with this protection against dangerous inspirations! (3-4) |
| ENDLESSSTRUGGLE | What you may be faced with when doing the new project |
| ACNE | This may cause one to be faced with black spots (4) |
| UPAGAINST | With it, it will be a difficult task (2,7) |
| BEAR | "That was a real ___!" (phrase after a difficult task... or a scary sighting in the woods) |
| TALL | A _ order: a difficult task assigned? |
| FACADE | Faced with a change, I put on a front (6) |
| BATONASTICKYWICKET | Staff - a staff still around town - deal with a difficult situation |
| SOFIELAGUNA | Whose novel, The Eye of the Sheep (2014), about a poor family struggling to cope with a difficult child, won the 2015-Miles Franklin Award? (5,6) |
