Related Clues:

• To avoid the alternative
• '___ what?' (response to a threat)
• ''___ now, then when?''
• ''Otherwise . . .''
• Words before an alternative
• Conditional phrase
• ''Otherwise ...''
• Menacing words
• Unfinished threat
• Ultimate words in an ultimatum
• Bully's threat
• Words suggesting serious consequences
• "Do it ___!"
• End of an ultimatum
• Goon's last words