AGONY

• ___ aunt (British advice columnist)

• ... and the ___ of defeat

• ... the ___ of defeat

• ... the ___ of defeat (Wide World of Sports intro words)

• 'The ___ and the Ecstasy

• A long, amateurish piano recital, maybe

• Anguish

• Awful feeling

• Awful struggle

• Cause for contortions

• Convulsive struggle

• Deep distress

• Defeat feeling

• Defeat may bring it

• Dental procedure, for some

• Ecstasy opposite

• Ecstasy's antithesis

• Ecstasy's counterpart

• Ecstasy's literary partner

• Ecstasy's partner

• Emotion in defeat, sometimes

• Excruciating pain

• Excruciation

• Extreme discomfort

• Extreme emotion

• Extreme pain

• Extreme suffering

• Feature of Greek plays

• Go into any distress

• Great pain

• Great suffering

• Hard going

• Hell

• Intense distress

• Intense emotion

• Intense pain

• Intense suffering

• Intense suspense, e.g.

• Intense suspense, say

• Into the Woods song

• It hurts

• It's a big pain

• It's a major pain

• Kind of column

• Listening to an insufferable bore, often

• Major pain

• Mental torment

• Miserable feeling

• Misery

• Opposite of ecstasy

• Pain

• Prolonged pain

• Prolonged suffering

• Serious suffering

• Severe pain

• Severe suffering

• Sitting through a bad piano recital, e.g.

• Sitting through a bad violin recital, say

• Smokey Robinson's The ___ and the Ecstasy

• Song from Sondheim's Into the Woods

• Suffering

• That tortured feeling

• The ___ of defeat (poker player's suffering)*

• The thrill of victory and the ___ of defeat

• The thrill of victory and the ___ of defeat (Wide World of Sports catchphrase)

• There is no greater ___ than bearing an untold story inside you: Maya Angelou

• Throes and woes

• Torment

• Torture

• True pain

• Unending pain

• Violent struggle

• Intense feelings of suffering

• Acute mental or physical pain

• A state of acute pain