| VICIOUSCIRCLE | Situation where attempts to solve a problem make things worse (7,6) |
| SORTOUT | Fix (a problem); make tidy (4,3) |
| SPLITENDS | Bad-hair-day problems: make list, spend madly (5,4) |
| TRIALANDERROR | Way to solve a problem of hearing with inaccuracy (5,3,5) |
| TWISTTHEKNIFE | Wine kit thefts managed to make things worse |
| JOBSCOMFORTER | Using six's muffler, I just make things worse |
| WIPEOFFTHEMAP | Solve a problem by annihilation |
| TRIMTHEBUDGET | Solve a problem of overspending |
| UNCOMPLICATED | Manhattan politicians made things worse by being simple (13) |
| FORMULA | A set of symbols that are used to solve a problem (7) |
| BREAKTHROUGH | Rest go from side to side to solve a problem (12) |
| AGGRAVATE | It's up to Georgia, at being in the grave, to make things worse (9) |
| TAR | A ____ baby is a problem aggravated by attempts to solve it |
| ADD | Make things worse for a theologian to sin until corrected by group of twelve (3,6,2,6) |
| INSULT | Make things worse for a theologian to sin until corrected by group of twelve (3,6,2,6) |
| TOINJURY | Make things worse for a theologian to sin until corrected by group of twelve (3,6,2,6) |
| ALGORITHM | In mathematics, a set of instructions or rules that can be followed to solve a problem (9) |
| NUN | One who tries to "solve a problem like Maria" |
| CLUE | Something that helps to solve a problem or mystery (4) |
| THINKINGCAP | This is "put on" to solve a problem |
