Answer: AGONY
AGONY is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 86 times.
Referring Clues:
- Kind of column
 - It hurts
 - Prolonged pain
 - Sitting through a bad piano recital, e.g.
 - Violent struggle
 - Intense suffering
 - A long, amateurish piano recital, maybe
 - Suffering
 - Torment
 - Intense pain
 - Unending pain
 - Extreme pain
 - Serious suffering
 - Awful feeling
 - Excruciating pain
 - Listening to an insufferable bore, often
 - Sitting through a bad violin recital, say
 - Severe suffering
 - It's a major pain
 - Ecstasy's counterpart
 - Ecstasy's opposite
 - Intense suspense, e.g.
 - Anguish
 - "There is no greater ___ than bearing an untold story inside you": Maya Angelou
 - Awful struggle
 - Torture
 - ___ aunt (British advice columnist)
 - Hell
 - "The thrill of victory and the ___ of defeat"
 - Song from Sondheim's "Into the Woods"
 - "... the __ of defeat"
 - "Into the Woods" song
 - ''. . . and the __ of defeat''
 - ''The __ and the Ecstasy''
 - That tortured feeling
 - ". . . the ___ of defeat"
 - Opposite of ecstasy
 - Emotion in defeat, sometimes
 - Excruciation
 - Deep distress
 - Great suffering
 - Great pain
 - "... the ___ of defeat"
 - It's a big pain
 - Ecstasy opposite
 - "The ___ and the Ecstasy"
 - "... and the ___ of defeat"
 - Pain
 - Major pain
 - Woe
 - Great distress
 - Big pain
 - Misery
 - See 55-Across
 - Unbearable pain
 - Prolonged suffering
 - The ___ of defeat
 - Painful ordeal
 - True pain
 - You suffer when you're in it
 - Hellish suffering
 - Throes and woes
 - Waiting, for the impatient, say
 - Ecstasy's antithesis
 - Great misery
 - Miserable feeling
 - Severe pain
 - Intense feeling
 - Opposite of ecstasy
 - Ecstasy's partner
 - State nobody wants to live in
 - Having one's wisdom teeth pulled, e.g.
 - What waiting for overdue results can be
 - Unrelenting pain
 - U-turn from ecstasy
 - Terrible pain
 - "... the ___ of defeat": "Wide World of Sports" phrase
 - Sitting next to a constantly crying baby on a cross-country flight, maybe
 - Counterpart of ecstasy
 - Heartbreak, maybe
 - Extreme distress
 - Title feeling "beyond power of speech," in an "Into the Woods" song
 - Serious distress
 - "The ___ and the Ecstasy" (biographical novel about Michelangelo)
 - "Into the Woods" song sung by two princes
 - "The ___ and the Ecstasy": novel about Michelangelo
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - July 28, 2025
 - New York Times - March 02, 2025
 - USA Today - February 28, 2025
 - LA Times - December 25, 2024
 - New York Times - October 13, 2024
 - New York Times - February 27, 2024
 - LA Times - January 12, 2024
 - USA Today - May 30, 2023
 - New York Times - May 30, 2023
 - USA Today - April 24, 2023
 - New York Times - March 14, 2023
 - LA Times - December 23, 2022
 - LA Times - September 06, 2022
 - LA Times - April 26, 2022
 - LA Times - May 30, 2021
 - LA Times - May 21, 2021
 - Netword - April 26, 2021
 - New York Times - February 22, 2021
 - LA Times - January 28, 2021
 - LA Times - November 21, 2020
 
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