Possible Clues:

• Not looking good
• Emergency-related
• Calamitous, like a threat
• Really dreadful - ride on
• "Sultans of Swing" ___ Straits
• --- Straits (rock group)
• Desperate; dreadful
• Appalling or extreme
• You may get to see tea after this, and that's straight
• Ominous; very bad